Crawford” and reflects PhD research by Beth Hodgett. The project is part of the AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project “Visual Archaeology: The Photographic Character of the Archaeology of O.G.S.
The scans also aim to reflect the material condition of each print, bent or folded corners are often visible, along with rips in the mounts, or damage to the photographs themselves. Each photograph is scanned three times, once as a mounted print, then the print removed from the mount, and finally we scan the reverse of the print. To preserve this information, when scanning the photographs we have tried to include as many of these details as possible. Sometimes he also added notes to the back of each print. Crawford mounted each of his photographs on card, and often annotated these mounts with details like the time and date each photograph was taken, and his thoughts on the subject matter. The project begins with the premise that photographs are social objects, and that clues about the history of the archive, the photographs and Crawford own life can often be found by considering the photographs as material objects in their own right. As the archive is so extensive the project has selected examples of Crawford’s photography that are less well-known. The OGS Crawford Archive project began in October 2017, with the aim of digitalising and making available online as many of Crawford’s photographs as possible. These terrestrial photographs are the subject of a new project, combining digitization and archival research to explore these otherwise overlooked photographs.
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Today these photographs are held by the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford.Ĭrawford’s photographs span an almost bewildering range of themes from black and white photographs of rainbows and cloud formations, studies of archaeological sites like Stonehenge, a series documenting so-called “Marx-Sites” (locations related to the life of Karl Marx), survey work of castles and churches in Sudan and even several boxes of photographs of cats and other animals. Crawford was a prolific photographer, taking over 10,000 photographs during his life, mostly between 19. Crawford also played a pioneering role during the interwar years in professionalising the discipline of archaeology and championing the study of British prehistory. This statement was issued on Augby Entrata, Inc.Archaeologist O.G.S Crawford (1886-1957) is best known for his championing of the application of aerial photography to archaeology, founding the journal Antiquity, and putting archaeology on the map (quite literally) as the first Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey. We will do our best to respond to your feedback within five business days. Feedback:Įntrata welcomes feedback in relation to the accessibility of this website. Entrata is proud of the efforts that we have completed and that are in-progress to ensure that our website is accessible to everyone. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has established Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for website designers and developers to improve accessibility for individuals with disabilities, and this website strives to be conformant to WCAG 2.1 level AA. We are continually applying relevant accessibility standards to improve user experience for everyone who visits this website. (“Entrata”) is dedicated to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.
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