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Photographing Tutankhamun - Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive (Hardcover)
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Photographing Tutankhamun - Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive (Hardcover)
Series: Photography, History: History, Photography
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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. This 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.
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