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Shadow Sites
Publication details: Oxford University Press, USA 2007Description: 380 pagesISBN:- 9780199206322
- 941.00284 HAU
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| English Books | Anna Centenary Library | 941.00284 HAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 153499 |
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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 enchanteda 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 betweenphotography as a medium to capture traces of the past as well as their absence.
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