In
the summer of 1955, Robert McCabe, a young American in his early 20s,
was given a simple assignment by Professor Alan John Bayard Wace: to
create a visual record of Mycenae with his Rolleiflex camera and Plus-X
film.
Wace had led British excavations at Mycenae since he was
personally granted permission to do so in 1920, as Director of the
British School at Athens.
McCabe took some 200
photographs that year, a small number perhaps by modern digital
standards but a sizeable and comprehensive record nonetheless. This
exhibition features around fifty of those photographs, capturing a black
and white archive of the site and its place in the broader landscape – a
landscape peopled in McCabe's photographs by both archaeologists and
locals alike, whose interactions and stories are remembered in the
captions.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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