Shadow Sites - Photography, Archaeology, and the British Landscape 1927-1955

Zusatztext Hauser offers lively, detailed descriptions and analyses, as well as colourful and relevant historical accounts. Informationen zum Autor Kitty Hauser is a historian of visual and material culture who has written for publications including the New Left Review, the Burlington Magazine, and the London Review of Books. Previously a research fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, she has also taught at the London College of Fashion and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. She is currently Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Klappentext In mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a 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 these evocative interpretations and looks at how they affected the way the landscape was seen. Zusammenfassung 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 enchanted a 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 evocative interpretations of the landscape and looks at the affinities between photography as a medium to capture traces of the past as well as their absence. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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' ...

Product details

• Authors: Kitty Hauser, Kitty (Research Fellow Hauser, Hauser Kitty
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2007
• EAN: 9780199206322
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920632-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Aerial photography, British & Irish history, Archaeology, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles