
An Archaeology of Architecture
Photowriting the Built Environment
Dennis Tedlock(Author)
University of New Mexico Press
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2013
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-0-8263-5305-4 (ISBN)
Description
Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock practices what he calls photowriting, a creative process that brings photographer and writer together in the same person. It may be true enough that a photograph can show more than words can say, but it is equally true that words can say more than a photograph can show. A third space opens up in the middle, where the viewer-reader can look back and forth between image and text at will.
Tedlock looks at the built world with the eye of an archaeologist and ethnographer. His long experience as a fieldworker has made him acutely aware of the ways in which buildings are continuously altered by human actions and natural forces. Anthropology assigns ruins to archaeology and structures currently in use to ethnology, but Tedlock reminds the viewer that an occupied building bears marks of the same processes that produce archaeological remains. As he puts it, ""Whenever I look around at the worlds humans build for themselves, I see archaeology in the making.
Tedlock looks at the built world with the eye of an archaeologist and ethnographer. His long experience as a fieldworker has made him acutely aware of the ways in which buildings are continuously altered by human actions and natural forces. Anthropology assigns ruins to archaeology and structures currently in use to ethnology, but Tedlock reminds the viewer that an occupied building bears marks of the same processes that produce archaeological remains. As he puts it, ""Whenever I look around at the worlds humans build for themselves, I see archaeology in the making.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
67 colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 259 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
957 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-5305-4 (9780826353054)
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E-Book
06/2013
Simon + Schuster LLC
€33.62
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Persons
Dennis Tedlock is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA and a Research Associate at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, USA. He and his wife, noted anthropologist Barbara Tedlock, were awarded Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2006 by PEN New Mexico.
Arthur Sze has published eight books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, and The Redshifting Web. He was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, USA.
Arthur Sze has published eight books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, and The Redshifting Web. He was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, USA.