Since 1887 the University Museum has been one of the leading archaeology and anthropology museums in the world and has sponsored field research in every corner of the globe. A key outcome, from its first expedition to Nippur, in modern-day Iraq, through more than 300 expeditions in the past century, to its research in fifteen different countries today, has been a wealth of primary photographs capturing both expeditions and excavations and also images of modern peoples on every inhabited continent of our planet.
These vintage photographs, carefully selected from hundreds of thousands, range from mundane record-keeping pictures to glorious aesthetic treats, and they are in demand by international scholars and students and researchers worldwide. One of the most powerful of media to convey information about—and to advance understanding of—foreign peoples and places is photography. Soldiers, missionaries, merchants, and other travelers carried out early anthropological photography in distant lands. Field photography was extremely difficult when the Museum began its research program in the late 1880s, requiring the transport of a complete dark room and other heavy equipment. The Museum's intrepid adventurers sought scientific accuracy, with no artifice that may have obscured the realism of the image.
An engaging narrative essay highlighting the Museum's fieldwork explains the contexts of the range of photographs from the Museum's Archives and the role of photography in studying human cultures.
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Alessandro Pezzati is Archivist at the University Museum.
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Since its founding in 1887, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has undertaken a program of fieldwork and exploration around the world that continues to this day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Pennsylvania Museum, South America, Bronze Age, Iron Age, New Jersey, United States New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- A World History of Photography (3rd Edition) by Naomi Rosenblum in Back Matter
- The Iron Age by Francis Brett Young on page 6
- Puritans in Babylon by Bruce Kuklick in Back Matter
- Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method by John Collier in Back Matter
- Saudi Arabia (Countries: Faces and Places) by Bob Temple in Front Matter
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