Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East

Editor(s): Jack Green, Emily Teeter, John Larson.

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Oriental Institute Museum Publications 34

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This fully illustrated catalog of essays, descriptions, and commentary accompanies the Oriental Institute special exhibit Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East (on exhibit February 7 through September 2, 2012). Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, models, photographs, and computer-aided reconstructions that show how the architecture, sites, and artifacts of the ancient Middle East have been documented. It also examines how the publication of those images have shaped our perception of the ancient world, and how some of the more "imaginary" reconstructions have obscured our real understanding of the past. The exhibit and catalog also show how features of the ancient Middle East have been presented in different ways for different audiences, in some cases transforming a highly academic image into a widely recognized icon of the past.

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Map of the Middle East

Introduction. Jack Green
The Oriental Institute and Early Documentation in the Nile Valley. Emily Teeter
The Epigraphic Survey and the “Chicago Method.” W. Raymond Johnson
The Sakkarah Expedition. Ann Macy Roth
Photography and Documentation of the Middle East. Emily Teeter
The Oriental Institute Photographic Archives. John A. Larson
Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images. Scott Branting, Elise MacArthur, and Susan Penacho
Facsimiles of Ancient Egyptian Paintings: The Work of Nina de Garis Davies, Amice Calverley, and Myrtle Broome. Nigel Strudwick
Preserving the Past in Plaster. William H. Peck
Drawing Reconstruction Images of Ancient Sites. Jean-Claude Golvin
The Persepolis Paintings of Joseph Lindon Smith. Dennis O’Connor
Three-Dimensional Digital Forensic Facial Reconstruction: The Case of Mummy Meresamun. Joshua Harker
A Brief History of Virtual Heritage. Donald H. Sanders