Photographing Tutankhamun: How the Camera Helped Create “King Tut”
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesChristina Riggs, Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom When Howard Carter found the sealed entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, he secured the services of archaeological photographer Harry Burton to document the site. Over the course of ten years, Burton produced more than 3,000 glass negatives of […]