Title: Oblique views : aerial photography and Southwest archaeology /
Authors: Lindbergh, Charles A. 1902-1974,; Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001; Heisey, Adriel,; McBrinn, Maxine,; Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico),; Archaeology Southwest (Organization),
Year: 2015
Subjects: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico) Exhibitions.; Indians of North America Southwest, New Antiquities Pictorial works Exhibitions.; Cultural landscapes Southwest, New Pictorial works Exhibitions.; Aerial photography in archaeology Southwest, New Exhibitions.; Landscape photography Southwest, New Exhibitions.; Repeat photography Southwest, New Exhibitions.; PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Aerial.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.; Aerial photography in archaeology; Antiquities; Cultural landscapes; Indians of North America Antiquities.; Landscape photography; Repeat photography; Southwest, New Antiquities Pictorial works Exhibitions.; Southwest, New Aerial photographs Exhibitions.; Four Corners Region Aerial photographs Exhibitions.; Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) Aerial photographs Exhibitions.; North America Rio Grande Valley; New Southwest; United States Four Corners Region
Abstract: "In 1927, the year that Charles A. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic Ocean, another revolution was happening on the ground. A group of young archaeologists was forging an area of study centered on the ancient Southwest. Aviation and archaeology merged when Alfred V. Kidder of the Carnegie Institution hired Lindbergh to photograph the sites from an airplane. Lindbergh's aerial survey of the Four Corners and Upper Rio Grande, made with Anne Morrow Lindbergh at the controls and, possibly, photographing some of the sites, were the first low-angle views of the vast, interconnected ancient landscape. The Lindbergh documentation of the sites remains a valuable historic record of the northern Southwest plateau. Ninety years later, noted aerial photographer Adriel Heisey has been commissioned by Archaeology Southwest, an organization dedicated to preservation archaeology, to re-photograph the ancient sites exactly as Lindbergh did. The juxtaposition of thirty black-and-white remastered Lindbergh images and thirty contemporary color images, provides a fascinating survey of the area over nearly a century allowing a unique view of the multi-layered, cultural landscape of the American Southwest over time"--
Contents: Preservation archaeology and aerial photography : a changing Southwest / Linda J. Pierce -- Oblique views : archaeology, photography, and time / Maxine E. McBrinn -- Plates: A rephotographic perspective -- Aviators and archaeologists : the 1929 Lin[d]bergh Aerial Survey / Erik O. Berg -- References -- Suggestions for the interested reader.