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E-book Antiquity and Photography : Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites
At their first public demonstration in Paris in 1839, photographs seemed nothing short of miraculous in their ability to record a mirror image of actuality. From the moment its inventors promoted the camera's usefulness for documenting Egyptian hieroglyphs, photography has played a decisive role in the interpretation of antiquity. Early photographers focused their lenses on marble-pillared temples, toppled statues, and the exotic foreign panoramas that had long lured travelers to the antique lands. Frequently trained as painters, these pioneers mingled the factual wit h the lyrical. Their expressive views, seemingly objective win dows onto a remote past, were never far removed from contemporary concerns. Early photographs reveal as much about the photographers' sensibilities and the social milieu in which their aesthetic and scientific responses were shaped as it does about antiquity itself.
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