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Category : Archaeological expeditions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1998, Professor Jay A. Frogel, intrigued by the accuracy of [Frederick] Catherwood’s illustrations, began 'The Stephens and Catherwood Project' to photograph the Maya ruins at the same vantage points as engravings found in [John L.] Stephens’s 'Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan' and 'Incidents of Travel in Yucatan.' [Frogel] superimposed Catherwood’s engravings over his contemporary photographs of Maya ruins. The photographs illuminate the engravings and colorize the images in certain sections and not others, thus exposing the losses that have occurred at the ruins. These composite photographs are a visual narrative of the sites’ histories, revealing the journey of the ruins from past to present. They display the deterioration of the ruins, what remains from the past, and how the sites have been modified.
