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Egitto, Iraq ed Etruria nelle forografie di John Alfred Spranger : viaggi e ricerche archeologiche (1929-1936)
- Title
- Egitto, Iraq ed Etruria nelle forografie di John Alfred Spranger : viaggi e ricerche archeologiche (1929-1936) / Stefano Anastasio e Barbara Arbeid.
- Author
- Anastasio, Stefano
- Publication
- Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFG 19-200 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Arbeid, Barbara
- Description
- 171 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
- Summary
- This volume, in Italian, with an English summary, presents the 1930s archaeological photo-albums of John Alfred Spranger (1889-1968). Engineer, topographer, mountain climber, archaeologist, art collector and photographer, Spranger traveled extensively in the Balkans, Greece, Egypt and the Near East, Canada, Central Asia and left several photo albums detailing archaeological explorations as well as travel memories. In the 1920s-1930s, he took part in a number of Etruscan excavations in Tuscany, together with Harry Burton, the photographer of the Tomb of Tutankhamun. With a pioneering approach, they used the photo-camera to document the excavation work in progress. The albums are dedicated to a trip to Egypt in 1929, a trip to Mesopotamia (Iraq) in 1936 and some surveys and excavations carried out in Etruria (Tuscany, Italy) in 1929-1935. Spranger's photos are particularly meaningful, especially because he combined his skills in using the camera with a great expertise in archaeology and topography. His photos make it possible to understand, after almost a century, how many Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Etruscan sites appeared at the time of their first excavations.
- Subjects
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Architectural photography
- Pictorial works
- Iraq
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Iraq > Pictorial works
- Spranger, John Alfred
- Egypt
- Documentary photography
- Archaeology > Pictorial works
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Italy > Etruria > Pictorial works
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Pictorial works
- Europe > Etruria
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168).
- Language (note)
- Italian text with English summary.
- Call Number
- JFG 19-200
- ISBN
- 1789691265
- 9781789691269
- OCLC
- 1082966563
- Author
- Anastasio, Stefano, author.
- Title
- Egitto, Iraq ed Etruria nelle forografie di John Alfred Spranger : viaggi e ricerche archeologiche (1929-1936) / Stefano Anastasio e Barbara Arbeid.
- Imprint
- Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168).
- Language
- Italian text with English summary.
- Added Author
- Arbeid, Barbara, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFG 19-200