Balloon Photography and Archaeological Excavation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3396310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P L O Guy, Priscilla Guy (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1932 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 22 |
| Pages | 148-155 |
| Publication date | 1932-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00006682 |
| OpenAlex | W2201966050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
It is a great help to the understanding of a piece of country, a town or a building to get to some high point in the vicinity and look down upon it, and the more nearly vertical one's point of view the more accurate is one's impression. In the 'nineties, as a boy, I used to spend hours at the top of the spire of Rouen Cathedral gazing down upon the city below, and it was only a step from this to record such a view photographically; but it was some time before I took my first truly vertical photograph.About 1904, a friend who was engineer on the construction of the Rothesay Dock near Glasgow asked me to photograph for him the concrete foundations of a part of this dock: I could not get a proper view of these from anywhere on the ground, so I asked if I might utilize a great crane which stood nearby. It was probably against all the rules of the Clyde Trust, but I was thereupon swung high in the air over my subject, and plate 1 shows the result obtained with a no. 2 Bullseye Kodak
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Excavation · Library science · Photography · Point (geometry) · Subject (documents) · Visual arts · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2009 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |