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Photographing Tutankhamun : archaeology, ancient Egypt, and the archive / Christina Riggs.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT87.5 .R54 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riggs, Christina, author.
- Series:
- Photography, history: history, photography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tutankhamen, King of Egypt--Tomb--Pictorial works.
- Tutankhamen.
- Tutankhamen, King of Egypt.
- Photography in archaeology--Egypt.
- Photography in archaeology.
- Egypt--Antiquities--Pictorial works.
- Egypt.
- Antiquities.
- Tombs.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
- Summary:
- They are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun; life-size statues of the boy king on guard beside a doorway, tantalizingly sealed, in his tomb; or a solid gold coffin still draped with flowers cut more than 3,300 years ago. Yet until now, no study has explored the ways in which photography helped mythologize the tomb of Tutankhamun, nor the role photography played in shaping archaeological methods and interpretations, both in and beyond the field. 0This book undertakes the first critical analysis of the photographic archive formed during the ten-year clearance of the tomb, and in doing so explores the interface between photography and archaeology at a pivotal time for both. Photographing Tutankhamun foregrounds photography as a material, technical, and social process in early 20th-century archaeology, in order to question how the photograph made and remade 'ancient Egypt' in the waning age of colonial order.
- Contents:
- Photographing Tutankhamun: an introduction chapter
- Mirrored memories: excavating the photographic archive
- The first and most pressing need: photographic practice at the Tomb of Tutankhamun
- Tutankhamun's treasures: objects, artworks, bodies
- Men at work: the resurrection of the boy-king
- Worlds exclusive: mediating Tutankhamun
- The looking-glass: egyptology's archival afterlives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781350038523
- 1350038520
- 9781350038516
- 1350038512
- OCLC:
- 1006302687
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