This exhibition takes the viewer through the alliance of photography and archaeology at excavations on the Bay of Naples. Composed of 11 curated photographs by famous photographers and archaeologists, the exhibition begins with the birth of photography and its steady progress through the 19th and 20th century at Pompeii and Oplontis. The exhibition explores how photography transformed from Daguerre and Fox Talbot’s inventions to the famous photographers of the 19th century and archaeologists in the 20th century, turning the medium from a tourist tool into a scientific implement. Photography has been instrumental in preserving the past, while continuously evolving and changing the field of archaeology to this day.
Fratelli (Michele) Amodio, Pompeii, empreinte humaine a esclave, fouilles 1863 (Pompeii, human imprint, a slave, 1863 excavations), ca. 1873. Albumen silver print.
