Title Framing a lost city : science, photography, and the making of Machu Picchu / Amy Cox Hall

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages) : illustrations Series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. Contents Introduction: seeing science -- Sight -- Epistolary science -- Huaquero vision -- Circulation -- Latin America as laboratory -- Discovery aesthetics -- Picturing the miserable Indian for science -- Contests -- The politics of seeing -- Conclusion: artifact Summary When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed a by few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation began with the photographs that accompanied Bingham's article published in National Geographic magazine, which depicted Machu Picchu as a lost city discovered. Focusing on the practices, technologies, and materializations of Bingham's three expeditions to Peru (1911, 1912, 1914-1915), this book makes a convincing case that visualization, particularly through the camera, played a decisive role in positioning Machu Picchu as both a scientific discovery and a Peruvian heritage site. Amy Cox Hall argues that while Bingham's expeditions relied on the labor, knowledge, and support of Peruvian elites, intellectuals, and peasants, the practice of scientific witnessing, and photography specifically, converted Machu Picchu into a cultural artifact fashioned from a distinct way of seeing. Drawing on science and technology studies, she situates letter writing, artifact collecting, and photography as important expeditionary practices that helped shape the way we understand Machu Picchu today. Cox Hall also demonstrates that the photographic evidence was unstable, and, as images circulated worldwide, the "lost city" took on different meanings, especially in Peru, which came to view the site as one of national patrimony in need of protection from expeditions such as Bingham's Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index Notes Print version record Subject Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956. SUBJECT Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956 fast Peruvian Expeditions (1912-1915) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80049542 Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80049543 Yale Peruvian Expedition (1912) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003044252 Peruvian Expeditions (1912-1915) fast Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) fast Subject Anthropological ethics. Photography -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Peru -- Machu Picchu Site HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. HISTORY / Latin America / South America Anthropological ethics Antiquities Photography -- Moral and ethical aspects SUBJECT Machu Picchu Site (Peru) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85079403 Peru -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100187 Subject Peru Peru -- Machu Picchu Site Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477313695 1477313699 9781477313701 1477313702

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