Harry Burton & Tut Ankh Amon

[pdeeh]

I just watched this marvellous little documentary about the photographer Harry Burton, who was the photographic documentarist for Howard Carter in the excavation of Tutankamun's tomb in the 1920s.

In it, Harry Cory Wright takes his Gandolfi LF camera to the Valley of the Kings and tries to recreate Burton's work.

It's full of nice little details, and is a delightfully told story. And, of course, it's got glass plates, LF cameras, spot meters, long exposures, developer, fixer and dust.

See it here (if you're in the UK) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h99sb

If you're not in the UK, you may find it's geo-blocked, but you may be able to view it using a proxy or other IP spoofer.

 

[cowanw]

Only in Britain you say, pity.
(To paraphrase red rose tea (circa1977))

 

[pdeeh]

Only in Britain you say, pity.

I do urge you to investigate means to get around the geoblocking.
It's usually only a matter of subscribing to a free service or installing an addon or extension to your browser.

 

[Maris]

Note the "reverse darkslide convention". For Harry Cory Wright the black side out means unexposed, white side out means exposed. I've known only one other photographer who did this.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

Thanks pdeeh.

There's also a new series that started on Monday, Britain in Focus: A Photographic History: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h95c3
It is presented by Eamonn McCabe.

 

[removed account4]

I just watched this marvellous little documentary about the photographer Harry Burton, who was the photographic documentarist for Howard Carter in the excavation of Tutankamun's tomb in the 1920s.

In it, Harry Cory Wright takes his Gandolfi LF camera to the Valley of the Kings and tries to recreate Burton's work.

It's full of nice little details, and is a delightfully told story. And, of course, it's got glass plates, LF cameras, spot meters, long exposures, developer, fixer and dust.

See it here (if you're in the UK) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h99sb

If you're not in the UK, you may find it's geo-blocked, but you may be able to view it using a proxy or other IP spoofer.

i'll have to look into how to do this ( admittedly i am clueless )
sounds like a great program !
my question is, did burton die from mysterious unknown circumstances
like everyone else on the expedition because of the mummy's curse,
or when his mummy foundout he went to such a spooky expedition to photograph it, did she curse ?

 

[haziz]

Note the "reverse darkslide convention". For Harry Cory Wright the black side out means unexposed, white side out means exposed. I've known only one other photographer who did this.

It doesn't matter so long you are consistent. A master photographer ultimately knows his gear well, something which being a gear nut with too much "stuff", I will never become.

 

[cowanw]

Note the "reverse darkslide convention". For Harry Cory Wright the black side out means unexposed, white side out means exposed. I've known only one other photographer who did this.

I'm another!

 

[R.Gould]

I have been told that it is now available on You tube, don't have the link to it

 

[pdeeh]

Seems to have been uploaded a few times now to YT.

Search for "The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun" and anyone should be able to see it.

Although I expect the BBC copyright lawyers will get them removed quite quickly, if they haven't already

 

[Harry Stevens]

I still often watch the "Genius of Photography" series that BBC Four knocked out in 2006............

 

[Harry Stevens]

Thanks pdeeh.

There's also a new series that started on Monday, Britain in Focus: A Photographic History: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h95c3
It is presented by Eamonn McCabe.

Yes nice to see a series that will not have Joel Meyerowitz pop up every 5 minutes talking twaddle.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Is this it?

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Weird... at 22:42, he replaced the slide in the holder, white side out.

 

[pdeeh]

As others have noted, yes.
I wondered whether it was just because he was being filmed and they were doing a few takes to get the right one with him pulling/replacing darkslides.
But it may be his habit.