Excavating images: a photographic response to an archaeological

excavation

Carolyn Lefley University of Hertfordshire

Realm, Carolyn Lefley, 2009-2013

Longhouse footings at Caen, Strath of Kildonan, Scotland, 2013

Longhouse excavation at Caen, Strath of Kildonan, Scotland, 2013

Making cyanotypes (sun prints)

New Forms #1, #2, #3Carolyn Lefley

Cyanotype prints in wooden tray frames. Installation shot2013

Descendants #3 (Jean’s hearth), Carolyn Lefley, 2013

Descendants, Carolyn Lefley, 2013

The Diaspora Stones, Carolyn Lefley, silver liquid emulsion on stone, 2013

The Diaspora Stones, Carolyn Lefley, installation at Timespan Museum, Scotland, 2013

Neolithic art at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, Antonia Thomas – top rowThe Diaspora Stones, Carolyn Lefley – bottom row

RAI Photography and Anthropology conference portfolio Flickr page: ‘Archaeology’ https://www.flickr.com/photos/raieducation/sets/72157644463102461/

References:

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bbc.com (2013), ‘Archaeologists find evidence of Highland Clearance violence’, available at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22970566

Bird, Jon (1995), ‘Dolce Domum’ in Lingwood, James (1995), Rachel Whiteread: House, London: Phaidon Press Limited

 

Chadha, Ashish (2002), ‘Visions of discipline: Sir Mortimer Wheeler and the archaeological method in India (1944-1948)’, in Journal of Social Archaeology 2002; 2; 378

 

Dillon, Brian (2014), Ruin Lust, London: Tate Gallery Publishing

 

Shanks, Michael and Svabo, Connie (2013) ‘Archaeology and photography: a pragmatology’ in Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity, edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal, Routledge 2013.

 

Shanks, Michael and Svabo, Connie (2014), ‘Mobile-Media Photography: New Modes of Engagement’ in Larsen, Jonas; Sandbye, Mette (eds) (2014), Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography, London and New York: I. B. Taurus, pp 227-246