Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Visitors to Texas A&M’s Langford Architecture center this fall got to see a photo exhibit displaying new ways of seeing archaeological sites, monuments and sculpture in the Wright Gallery.
“The Creative Photograph in Archaeology: From the Traveling Photographers of the 19th Century to the Creative Photography of the 20th Century” portrayed the balance between documentation and creative vision through 76 black and white prints of Greek antiquities from the beginning of the semester through Oct. 8.
The exhibition was divided into five units spanning 150 years, from the first photographic attempts of the early travelers in the 19th century through the sophisticated work of the late 20th to early 21st century.
The show was sponsored by the Department of Architecture, the Department of Visualization, the J. Wayne Stark Galleries and the College Station Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Three events at the gallery took place in conjunction with the exhibit.
On Sept. 3, Alexandra Theodoropoulou, consul of Greece, who works in the Greek consulate in Houston, attended the exhibit’s opening reception. Kevin Glowacki, assistant professor of architecture, presented a gallery talk that evening.
A roundtable discussion with photographers and researchers from the Texas A&M community about themes and issues of documentary and creative photography took place from Sept. 22.
Claire Lyons, curator of antiquities at the J.P. Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., explored the evolution from "poetical geography" of the Grand Tour, a common practice a century ago of visiting Europe’s central cultural sites, to the historical topography conducted by architects, artists, and archaeologists in the 18th and 19th centuries and its lasting impact on the field of classical archaeology in her lecture “The Society of Dilettanti and the Chorographical Imagination” Oct. 2 at Preston Geren Auditorium.
Lyons’ appearance was part of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Distinguished Lecturer Series.
- Posted: Oct. 08, 2009 -
