EYE OF HISTORY The Camera as Witness

Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak

Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek
Department of Classical Studies
Wesleyan University

Andrew Szegedy-Maszak is a noted classical scholar, writer, and photographic curator who specializes in the study of Greek history and historiography and the history of photography. His publications include Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites (with Claire Lyons and John Papadopoulos, 2005) as well as numerous articles on the historical understandings generated by photography of classical sites in Athens and Rome in journals including Archaeology and History of Photography. He has curated exhibitions on photography and the interpretation of the classical past at Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among other venues. His current book project is a study of the representation of classical sites by nineteenth-century photographers and travel writers.