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Exposing the Maya : early archaeological photography in the Americas
- Title
- Exposing the Maya : early archaeological photography in the Americas / Katia Sainson, John W. Hessler.
- Author
- Sainson, Katia
- Publication
- Lewes, UK : GILES, an imprint of D Giles Limited, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hessler, John W.
- Description
- 176 pages : illustrations, map; 20 x 24 cm
- Summary
- "Exposing the Maya focuses on the works of 19th-century photographers Désiré Charnay, Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon, Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay and Adela Breton, all of whom were masters of their craft and travelled extensively to sites in Mexico and Central America. The over 100 selected images in this volume, together with nearly 40 additional contextual images featuring sketches from travel journals, hand-coloured drawings, prints and maps, are combined with the photographers' own words found in their published writings, journals and letters to provide insight into their methods, context for their images and to capture the realities of field work in Mesoamerica. Accessible and highly illustrated, Exposing the Maya features rare and important early photographs of the archaeological ruins and remains of the great Maya and Aztec civilizations of Mesoamerica, from an age that witnessed the evolution of photographic techniques and brought to life the long-faded murals and decoration of these ruins. This is an absorbing story of incredible journeys, the challenging conditions under which these pioneering photographers produced their images, and how they perceived the remnants of these ancient indigenous cultures in modern-day Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras."--
- Subject
- Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
- Le Plongeon, Alice D. 1851-1910
- Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908
- Maler, Teobert, 1842-1914
- Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931
- Breton, Adela, 1849-1923
- Maya architecture > Mexico > Pictorial works
- Maya architecture > Central America > Pictorial works
- Mayas > Mexico > Antiquities > Pictorial works
- Mayas > Central America > Antiquities > Pictorial works
- Photography in archaeology > Mexico > History
- Photography in archaeology > Central America > History
- Archaeology
- Mayas > Antiquities
- Photography in archaeology
- Maya architecture
- Mayas
- Central America
- Mexico
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Photobooks.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-172) and index.
- Contents
- Exposing the Maya -- The Photographers -- Desire Charnay -- Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon -- Teobert Maler -- Alfred Maudslay -- Adela Breton.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-5094
- ISBN
- 9781913875244
- 1913875245
- OCLC
- 1338650939
- Author
- Sainson, Katia, author.
- Title
- Exposing the Maya : early archaeological photography in the Americas / Katia Sainson, John W. Hessler.
- Publisher
- Lewes, UK : GILES, an imprint of D Giles Limited, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-172) and index.
- Biography
- Katia Sainson is a professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Towson University. John W. Hessler is the curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress and a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University.
- Added Author
- Hessler, John W., author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-5094