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Camera | Kalaureia
Hamilakis, Yannis; Ifantidis, Fotis
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Description for Camera | Kalaureia
Paperback. How can we find alternative, sensorially rich and affective ways of engaging with the material past in the present? How can photography play a central role in archaeological narratives, beyond representation and documentation? This photo-book engages with these questions through evocative creative practice. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: HDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 284 x 18. Weight in Grams: 650.
How can we find alternative, sensorially rich and affective ways of engaging with the material past in the present? How can photography play a central role in archaeological narratives, beyond representation and documentation? This photo-book engages with these questions, not through conventional academic discourse but through evocative creative practice. The book is, at the same time, a site guide of sorts: a photographic guide to the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Kalaureia, on the island of Poros, in Greece. Ancient and not-so-ancient stones, pine trees that were “wounded” for their resin, people who lived amongst the classical ... Read more
How can we find alternative, sensorially rich and affective ways of engaging with the material past in the present? How can photography play a central role in archaeological narratives, beyond representation and documentation? This photo-book engages with these questions, not through conventional academic discourse but through evocative creative practice. The book is, at the same time, a site guide of sorts: a photographic guide to the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Kalaureia, on the island of Poros, in Greece. Ancient and not-so-ancient stones, pine trees that were “wounded” for their resin, people who lived amongst the classical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Archaeopress United Kingdom
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784914127
SKU
V9781784914127
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About Hamilakis, Yannis; Ifantidis, Fotis
Fotis Ifantidis is an archaeologist-museologist, post-doctoral researcher at the University of the Aegean. His research is focused on personal adornment practices in prehistory, on the interplay between photography and archaeology [case-studies: Dispilio, the Athenian Acropolis, the sanctuary of Kalaureia, Koutroulou Magoula] and on the use of images in the archaeological museum landscape.
Reviews for Camera | Kalaureia
‘Camera Kalaureia is a fresh, non-conventional, creative, and highly evocative archaeological photo-ethnography, combining all in one of Hamilakis’ ideological standpoints on archaeology, heritage, and the body, and against colonialism, nationalism and modernism, with Ifantidis’ masterful craft of the lens. Aimed at a broad audience, academic and not, the book does not merely present a visual alternative for ideas and interpretations ... Read more