The Secrets of Photography » courageous life http://www.laurajunka.com Tue, 11 May 2010 00:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Exploring Iran: The Photography of Erich F. Schmidt, 1930-1940 http://www.laurajunka.com/1611-exploring-iran-the-photography-of-erich-f-schmidt-1930-1940.html http://www.laurajunka.com/1611-exploring-iran-the-photography-of-erich-f-schmidt-1930-1940.html#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 00:46:02 +0000 http://www.laurajunka.com/1611-exploring-iran-the-photography-of-erich-f-schmidt-1930-1940.html

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The Penn Museum’s first archaeological expedition to Iran took place in 1931, when Erich F. Schmidt excavated the Bronze Age site of Tepe Hissar near the town of Damghan and the monumental buildings of the pre-Islamic Sasanian Palace.

In this part of his adventurous and courageous life Schmidt, then a young German WWI veteran who had received his Ph.D. degree under Franz Boas at Columbia University, documented the project with nearly 2,600 culturally sign… More >>

Exploring Iran: The Photography of Erich F. Schmidt, 1930-1940

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