Egypt recovered : early photographic surveys and the development of Egyptology [sound recording] / [lecture by] Kathleen Stewart Howe ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Egypt recovered : early photographic surveys and the development of Egyptology [sound recording] / [lecture by] Kathleen Stewart Howe ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Kathleen Stewart Howe, the Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel '23 director of the Museum of Art and professor of Art History at Pomona College, discusses how the introduction of photography contributed to the earliest investigations of ancient Egypt and advanced the developing discipline of Egyptology. Early studies of Egyptian antiquity were often based on antiquarian collections of texts and objects. As the discipline shifted to investigations of sites through systematic excavation, photography was deployed as a new tool to construct an objective, mechanical record, providing a new mode of investigation and furthering the study of ancient Egypt.

1 sound disc (ca. 60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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