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The New World's Old World: Photographic Views of Ancient America

Categorie	Geschiedenis Zuid- en Latijns Amerika
Boeknummer	#329457-AD17
Titel	The New World's Old World: Photographic Views of Ancient America
Auteur	Castleberry, May (editor)
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	University of New Mexico Press
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0826329713
ISBN13	9780826329714
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, oblong, circa 23x25cm, illustrated.
Samenvatting	This book showcases the remarkable work of photographers who have captured the archaeological landscapes of ancient American cultures from the dawn of photography to the current day. Through essays and descriptive entries on specific sites, the volume demonstrates how photography serves science by conserving structures and masterpieces of the Americas' past, in addition to being an independent artistic medium. Most of the places shown here have been inhabited continuously since contact or rebuilt over ancient sites. Where some nineteenth-century photographers uncovered jumbles of stone smothered in vegetation, their successors contemplated sites altered by excavation, restoration, earthquakes and floods, vandalism, and the encroachment of settlements that obscure or obliterate ancient stru... (Lees verder)ctures.
Pagina's	270
Conditie	Nieuw
Prijs	€ 15,00

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