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ARCHAEOLOGICAL RHETORIC AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DISCOVERY
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Photography and archaeology are two fields that have evolved and intertwined since scientist and politician François Arago presented the characteristics and possibilities of the daguerreotype to the Chamber of Deputies and the French Academy of Sciences in Paris (1839).
Photojournalist Ara Güler (1928-2018), a member of Magnum Agency, discovered the traces of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat (1959), the remains of giant statues of the Kommagene Kingdom on Mount Nemrut (1958), the ancient city of Aphrodisias (1958) and made these archaeological areas known throughout the world. Another Magnum member, photojournalist Josef Koudelka (1938), rediscovered two hundred ancient cities on the Mediterranean coast between 1991 and 2019 with his project "Ruins," bringing these archaeological sites up to date worldwide. Ara Güler and Josef Koudelka have extraordinary archaeological rhetoric. Their photographs are photojournalistic records and metaphors of archaeological imagination and classical values. This topic has been examined by mapping the archaeological contemplation theory represented by Volney, the theories of photographic rhetoric developed by Roland Barthes and Vilem Flüsser, the Chronos-Aion theory developed by Gilles Deleuze, and the archaeological rhetoric theory developed by Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley, and by using the descriptive method.
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