TheworkofArgentinephotographerLeandroKatzispresentedhereindialoguewiththenineteenth-centuryartistFrederickCatherwood,whoseimagesofMayaruinshavefascinatedviewersformorethanacentury.Catherwood’sdaguerreotypesandsketches,originallypublishedtoillustratethetravelnarrativesofJohnLloydStephens,areamongthemostaccuratedepictionsofimportantMayasitesbeforetheadventofmodernarchaeology.Katz’sphotosofthesamesites,mostofwhicharepreviouslyunpublished,arepresentedalongsideJesseLerner’sessay,whichexplorestheirconnectionstothehistoryofarchaeology,theirresonanceincontemporaryart,andtheevolutionofanartistwhoseamlesslyintegratesformandcontent.
