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Corroded and abraded - ghosts in the mirror.
Updated: Feb 05, 2009 8:12am PST
![Northumberland - Chorography Series One : Being there. Ambient details. Haecceity.
The specifics, often overlooked, the mundane and unspectacular are often what create a sense of place. Here is a series of photos that attempt to deal with this "haecceity" - the "this-ness" or "here-ness", the qualities of place of the border county of Northumberland, UK.
Deliberate are the references to seventeenth and eighteenth century accounts of region - the chorographies that mingled natural history with genealogy with toponymy with archaeology with geology with folklore with history with poetry with musicology.
[Link to my Stanford site]](/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=7270885&Size=Tiny&AlbumKey=rVbgQ&rand=2132 "Northumberland - Chorography Series One : Being there. Ambient details. Haecceity.
The specifics, often overlooked, the mundane and unspectacular are often what create a sense of place. Here is a series of photos that attempt to deal with this \"haecceity\" - the \"this-ness\" or \"here-ness\", the qualities of place of the border county of Northumberland, UK.
Deliberate are the references to seventeenth and eighteenth century accounts of region - the chorographies that mingled natural history with genealogy with toponymy with archaeology with geology with folklore with history with poetry with musicology.
[Link to my Stanford site]")
Northumberland - Chorography Series One
Being there. Ambient details. Haecceity. The specifics, often overl ...
Updated: Feb 04, 2009 1:38am PST
Epigraphy - inscription, script, stone, paper, reading, deciphering. ...
Updated: Feb 20, 2009 9:50pm PST
Incanto, that wonderful Italian restaurant, San Francisco. February 20 ...
Updated: Feb 21, 2009 7:50pm PST
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Michael Shanks - archaeologist at Stanford University - "archaeographer".
Archaeology - working on ruin.
Photography - arresting contingent moments.
Archaeography - picturing the archaeological imagination.
See more of my work at michaelshanks.org
Archaeology - working on ruin.
Photography - arresting contingent moments.
Archaeography - picturing the archaeological imagination.
See more of my work at michaelshanks.org
