The Transformation of Visual Archaeology (Part Two)

Abstract

The transformation of Visual Archaeology requires a sense of how Archaeology and Photography live together in a scansion filled with intermittent convergences, stutters or hesitations or ‘doubling- ups’, unstable durational relations that effect transformation through ‘an action particular to the Image’. In the archive and in the field Archaeology and Photography fall in and out of step, revealing the ongoing nature of the photograph and the artefact as alternative temporal modalities of knowledge, of the archaeographic gesture as a way of living with the past. Photological knowledge of the present reveals a much wider problem with how Photography has often been thought of in relation to the instant. A second photographic portrait is made, which excavates the self-image of the British collector, ethnologist, and archaeologist through Thompson’s Indigenous identity. The transformation of Visual Archaeology thus begins with acknowledging the transformative rather than purely representative dimensions of Archaeology and Photography.

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