Research Catalog

Title

The New World's old world : photographic views of ancient America / edited by May Castleberry.

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Castleberry, May
• AXA Gallery

Description

ix, 268 p. : ill., maps; 24 x 25 cm.

Summary

"This companion volume to the exhibition "New World's Old World," considers the achievements of photographers such as Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Francois Aubert, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Martin Chambi, Desire Charnay, Linda Connor, Laura Gilpin, Javier Hinojosa, Leandro Katz, Timothy O'Sullivan, Edward Weston, and others. They were at once partners to amateur and professional archaeologists as well as independent interpreters who contributed to the ongoing discovery and rediscovery of prehistoric and pre-Columbian sites in North, Central, and South America. Whether they sought to evoke the past or impose a contemporary aesthetic on its remains, all of the photographers represented in these pages derived inspiration from surviving artifacts of ancient American cultures. These photographs and essays reflect diverse approaches to monuments and archaeological landscapes. The images themselves range from early expeditionary documentation to responses that dispute the historical accuracy of previous photography."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Photographic views of ancient America

Subject

• Indians > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Indians > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Photography in archaeology > America > Exhibitions
• Photography in archaeology > America > History
• Indians > Antiquities > Pictorial works
• Photography > America > History
• America > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• America > Antiquities > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Note

• "Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the AXA Gallery, New York, May 8 to July 19, 2003"--P. preceding t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the New World's Old World / May Castleberry -- Primordial stones : reading ancient Mesoamerica / Kathleen Stewart Howe -- The necessity for ruins : photography and archaeology in the American Southwest / Martha A. Sandweiss -- Regional maps -- Site descriptions / Georgia de Havenon -- Selected images -- Works in exhibition.

ISBN

0826329713

LCCN

^^2003000793

OCLC

• 51519769
• SCSB-10431872

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library