Maya ruins revisited : in the footsteps of Teobert Maler / William Frej ; with essays by Stephan Merk and Alma Duran-Merk [and 3 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frej, William, author, photographer.

Contributor:

Merk, Stephan, contributor.

Durán-Merk, Alma, contributor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maya architecture--Pictorial works.

Maya architecture.

Mayas--Antiquities.

Mayas.

Maler, Teobert, 1842-1914.

Maler, Teobert.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe, New Mexico : Peyton Wright Gallery Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This stunning, substantial volume documents William Frej's forty-five year search for remote Maya sites primarily in Guatemala and Mexico, inspired in large part by his discovery of the work of German-Austrian explorer Teobert Maler, who photographed them in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many of Frej's magnificent photographs are juxtaposed here with historic photographs taken by Maler, and reveal the changes in the landscape that have occurred in the intervening century." -- Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface / Tomás Gallareta Negrón

Maps

Introduction / William Frej

Photographer's note / William Frej

The ancient Maya and their cities / Jeremy A. Sabloff

Picturing the ancient Maya: Photography of William Frej / Khristaan D. Villela

Teobert Maler: Documenting ancient Maya culture / Stephan Merk and Alma Durán-Merk

Plates: Northern lowlands

Southern lowlands.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780578639215

0578639211

OCLC:

1156365929

Publisher Number:

99988389681