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Paul Beidler and Ahmed Abd el-Aziz measuring the stones on the north face of the pyramid in Meydum, Egpyt; a Third to Fourth Dynasty site dating to circa 2600 BCE. Photograph by Fadil Saba, 1930.

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Ruwala (Bedouin) hunter with falcon, Northwestern Saudi Arabia, 1952; photograph by Carleton S. Coon, one of the last “generalist” anthropologists proficient in archaeology, physical anthropology and cultural anthropology.

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UPENN’S ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM PRESENTS ‘ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHY w/1-2 cuts

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PHILADELPHIA, PENN. — “Adventures In Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology” is on view through September 23 at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Forty-five black and white photographs, selected from the tens of thousands of expedition images in Penn Museum’s Archives, offer a kaleidoscopic view of some of the more than 400 field projects in the museum’s 120-year history. Included are images from famous expeditions to the Amazon (1913–1916), Memphis, Egypt (1915–1923), Ur in Iraq (1922–34), and Tikal, Guatemala (1956–1970).

Highlights include the photography of Stanislaw Niedzwiecki, who captured stunning views of the Tepe Hissar excavations in Persia in the 1930s, and the work of Carleton S. Coon, one of the last “generalist” anthropologists who documented the cultural and physical diversity of human populations in South Asia and the Near East in the 1950s and 1960s.

The exhibition features a small collection of Penn Museum’s research cameras, dating from 1911 to the 1960s, offering insight into the rapidly changing process of expedition photography.

Penn Museum Archivist Alessandro Pezzati curated the exhibition, which is accompanied by a Penn Museum publication, 2002, of the same title.

The museum is at 3260 South Street. For information, www.museum.upenn.edu or 215-898-4000.