Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826345956 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 415 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Mayan ruins by a pioneering woman photographer Henry Berry Alice Dixon Le Plongeon went from London with her husband the noted Maya archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon for an expedition in Central America. But she soon established herself as a equal partner with her husband especially in photographs of the Mayan ruins. Together they revolutionized the taking of photographs of the ruins so that an incomparably improved, detailed, and multifaceted visual record was made. Before the Le Plongeon's, archaeologists were satisfied with a few photographs of particular ruins taken on large glass plates. This was hardly a visual record of discoveries and fieldwork or of much use for other archaeologists
Alice Dixon (1851-1910) was born into a comfortable middle class life in London that she eagerly left behind to travel to Yucatán as the young bride of Maya archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon. Working side by side as photographers and archaeologists, the Le Plongeons were the first to excavate and systematically photograph the Maya sites of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal. Combined with Lawrence Desmond's biography of this remarkable woman's life, her diary offers readers a rare glimpse of l
He is the coauthor of A Dream of Maya, a look at the life and archaeology of the early Mayanist Augustus Le Plongeon. Lawrence Gustave Desmond is senior research fellow in archaeology with the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at Harvard University, and a research associate with the department of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
From the Inside Flap The biography and photographs of this talented and adventurous woman are accompanied here by her previously unpublished diary.