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Pompeii Archive

Wylie, William, 1957- photographer, Betzer, Sarah E., 1972- writer of essay, Reynolds, Jock, writer of afterword, Yale University. Art Gallery, host institution

Overview

Handsomely illustrated and grand in scale, this book features images by American photographer William Wylie (b. 1957) taken over the course of five years. The photographs reanimate the ancient city of Pompeii, showing the ongoing cycles of deterioration and preservation that mark it as a living landscape. Wylie captures Pompeii's former grandeur, including its terracotta reliefs and wall paintings, while also drawing attention to the signs of an active excavation site, from plaster casts in glass cases to ceramic fragments in storage facilities. His elegant compositions and command of light and shadow highlight how natural phenomena, pollution, and human intervention are continually reshaping the city. People, however, are notably absent in the photographs. Wylie beautifully documents Pompeii's present by engaging with the tenuous relationship that the archaeological site maintains with the past. Exhibition: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA (Spring-Summer 2018).

• Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery
• Subject: PHOTOGRAPHY / General. / Antiquities. / Pompeii (Extinct city) Pictorial works Exhibitions. / Italy Antiquities Pictorial works Exhibitions. / Italy. / Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)
• ISBN: 9780300233667, 0300233663

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DG70.P7 W95 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE