I am in Amsterdam delivering the Reinwardt Memorial Lecture at the Reinwardt Academy for Cultural Heritage in the Amsterdam School of the Arts [Link] [Link] This annual event commemorates the birthday of Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (3 June 1773 – 6 March 1854), after whom the Reinwardt Academy is named. The Academy is the foremost…
archaeography
Jedburgh – after Beny
Exploring the Borders with Gary (Devore). Jedburgh Abbey – an extraordinary building. In the footsteps of Roloph Beny – remarkable photographer, remarkable and misguided snob. Here is his photo from the lavish Thames and Hudson edition of Rose Macualay’s “Pleasure of Ruins” (1962).
archaeography – developments
A session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (United States) conference 2011- Dialogs in Archaeological Photography. Flickr galleries – [Link] [Link] Here are some notes accompanying the fascinating and sometimes wonderful pictures. Nostalgic, Personal, Neglected, Treasured, Rejected: The Other Photography in Archaeology Colleen Morgan, University of California, Berkeley, clmorgan@berkeley.edu Our record of archaeological uncertainty is…
Ghost signs: BBC Viewfinder
The BBC is covering Tom Bland’s photography in the archaeological imagination – Ghost signs. “I was seeing layers of typography, paint, colour – and combined with the texture of the crumbling and flaking materials, many of them were appealing to me as contemporary pieces of design in the vein of work by Ray Gun magazine.”…
Walltown Crags
Checking out Hadrian’s Wall for our summer tour. Chorography – checking out the car parks!
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