Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu

286 Pages·2017·20.21 MB·English

by  Amy Cox Hall

Framing a Lost City
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and
Latino Art and Culture
Framing a Lost City
Science, Photography, and the
Making of Machu Picchu
Amy Cox HAll
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Names: Hall, Amy Cox, author.
Title: Framing a lost city : science, photography, and the making of
Machu Picchu / Amy Cox Hall.
Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lCCN 2016054039
ISBN 978- 1- 4773- 1367- 1 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978- 1- 4773- 1368- 8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978- 1- 4773- 1369- 5 (library e- book)
ISBN 978- 1- 4773- 1370- 1 (non- library e- book)
Subjects: lCSH: Machu Picchu Site (Peru) | Peru—Antiquities. | Anthropological
ethics. | Peruvian Expeditions (1912–1915) | Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) |
Yale Peruvian Expedition (1912) | Bingham, Hiram, 1875–1956. | Photography—
Moral and ethical aspects—Peru—Machu Picchu Site.
Classification: lCC F3429.1.m3 H35 2017 | DDC 985/.37—dc23
lC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054039
doi:10.7560/313671
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
A Note on the Text xv
Introduction: Seeing Science 1
Sight
1. Epistolary Science 25
2. Huaquero Vision 49
Circulation
3. Latin America as Laboratory 69
4. Discovery Aesthetics 86
5. Picturing the Miserable Indian for Science 114
Contests
6. The Politics of Seeing 137
Conclusion: Artifact 164
Notes 183
Reference List 241
Index 261
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List of Illustrations
Figure 1.1. Ayer y Hoy, Sergio Langer, 2008. xvii
Figure 3.1. Hiram Bingham with his camera, 1912. 70
Figure 3.2. An untitled lantern slide, hand- tinted by W. C. Ives in Mystic,
Connecticut, for use in Bingham’s illustrated lectures, 1911. 78
Figure 3.3. Two panoramic photographs in expedition photo album,
1912. 83
Figure 3.4. “The Ruins of the Ancient Inca Capital, Machu Picchu,”
Hiram Bingham, 1912. 84
Figure 4.1. “Bird’s- Eye View of Machu Picchu (During Clearing) and
the Urubamba Canon,” Hiram Bingham, 1912. 96
Figure 4.2. “A Good Mule Road in Southern Peru,” Hiram Bingham,
1912. 98
Figure 4.3. “The Altar of the Chief Temple of Machu Picchu,” Hiram
Bingham, 1912. 99
Figure 4.4. “The Best type of Indian Workman: Southern Peru,” Hiram
Bingham, 1912. 100
Figure 4.5. “A Typical Cuzco Indian Mother and Baby,” Luther T.
Nelson, 1912. 102
Figure 4.6. Untitled, Ilustración Peruana, 1912. 108
Figure 4.7. Untitled, Ilustración Peruana, 1912. 109
Figure 5.1. Untitled photographs, labeled “F,” taken by David Ford,
c. 1915. 120
Figure 5.2. Plate 2 from H. B. Ferris, Anthropological Studies on the
Quichua and Machiganga Indians. 126