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Egitto, Iraq ed Etruria nelle fotografie di John Alfred Spranger. Viaggi e ricerche archeologiche (1929-1936) by Stefano Anastasio & Barbara Arbeid is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The volume – in Italian, with an English summary – presents the 1930s archaeological photo-albums realized by John Alfred Spranger (1889-1968). He was engineer, topographer, mountain climber, archaeologist, art collector and photographer. He traveled extensively – in the Balkans, Greece, Egypt and the Near East, Canada, Central Asia – and left several photo albums detailing archaeological explorations as well as travel memories. In the 1920s-1930s, he took part in a number of Etruscan excavations in Tuscany, together with Harry Burton, the photographer of the Tomb of Tutankhamun. With a pioneering approach, they used the photo-camera to document the excavation work in progress. The albums are dedicated to a trip to Egypt in 1929, a trip to Mesopotamia (Iraq) in 1936 and some surveys and excavations carried out in Etruria (Tuscany, Italy) in 1929-1935. Spranger’s photos are particularly meaningful, especially because he combined his skills in using the camera with a great expertise in archaeology and topography. His photos make it possible to understand, after almost a century, how many Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Etruscan sites appeared at the time of their first excavations. 01_SPR

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Author

Stefano Anastasio & Barbara Arbeid

Publisher

Archaeopress

Published

2019

Language

IT

Category

nonfiction