Shadow Sites Photography, Archaeology, and the British Landscape 1927-1951

Name: Shadow Sites Photography, Archaeology, and the British Landscape 1927-1951
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ISBN: 9780199206322

ISBN-10: 0199206325

ISBN-13: 9780199206322

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kitty Hauser

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At certain times of the day - at sunrise, and sunset - the outlines of prehistoric fields, barrows and hill-forts in the British landscape may be thrown into relief. Such 'shadow sites', best seen from above, and captured by an airborne camera, are both examples of, and metaphors for, a particular way of seeing the landscape. At a time of rapid modernisation and urbanisation in mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanteda number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty Hauser delves into…

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List price: $250.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/24/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.45" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction


The Archaeological Imagination


Tracing the Trace: Photography, the Index, and the Limits of Representation


Reading Antiquity, Mapping History


Revenants in the Landscape: The Discoveries of Aerial Archaeology


Recuperating Ruins


A Tale of Two Cities


Conclusion


Appendix: John Piper's 'Papers from Antiquity'