Capturing the "Real": Photography and Archaeology (part 1) -  (contains images of human remains)
Channel: Colleen Morgan
Date: 2023-11-21

What is an archaeological photograph? What are we trying to capture when we take archaeological photographs? I use these questions to guide our discussion of site, artefact, microscopic and landscape photography. After this review of film photography, I discuss the weird, wonderful world of digital photography in archaeology. But do RTI, LIDAR, structure from motion photogrammetry and other digital techniques bring us closer to an objective "truth" in recording? And what about all the personal photos from excavations? In this lecture I discuss the age of digital reproduction in archaeology and what it could mean for interpretation and the archaeological archive.