Harry Burton

Harry Burton (1879–1940) was an English Egyptologist and archaeological photographer. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he is best known for his photographs of excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings at the beginning of the 20th century. His most famous photographs may be those he took documenting Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. "The Times" published 142 of these images on February 21, 1923.

Work

He worked for Theodore M. Davis until 1914 and then worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Egyptian Expedition, often with Herbert E. Winlock. He spent eight years photographing Tutankhamun's tomb and its artefacts. Burton experimented with documentary film recording in the 1920s, including several hours documenting the Tutankhamun excavation.

In 2001, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a special exhibition focusing on Burton: "The Pharaoh's Photographer: Harry Burton, Tutankhamun, and the Metropolitan's Egyptian Expedition". Beginning May 26, 2006, the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute began an exhibit of Burton's Tutankhamun photographs called "Wonderful Things! The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamu: The Harry Burton Photographs"

External links

* [http://www.ashmolean.org/gri/carter/gallery/ Burton's Tutankhamun photographs] All 1,970 of Burton's photographs of the Tutankhamun excavation (The Griffith Institute)
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Pharaoh%27s_Photographer/Met_expedition_more.htm The Pharaoh's Photographer: Harry Burton, Tutankhamun, and the Metropolitan's Egyptian Expedition] (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
* [http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/Tut_Burton_Exhibit_2006.html Wonderful Things! The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun: The Harry Burton Photographs]
* [http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/burton1922bd1 Burton, Harry: Tutankhamun tomb photographs: a photographic record in 5 albums containing 490 original photographic prints ; representing the excavations of the tomb of Tutank... ] at diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de Digitized literature: H. Burton, Tutankhamun tomb photographs: a photographic record in 5 albums containing 490 original photographic prints ; representing the excavations of the tomb of Tutankhamun and its contents (Band 1), ca. 1922