Abstract
The career of the US photographer and archaeologist Alison Frantz (1903–1995) owed much to the material culture that was her inspiration. Her personal and professional devotion to the archaeological sites, monuments and antiquities of Greece provided the incentive that resulted in a half-century of careful study and documentation of her cherished subject. Divided today between the Photographic Archives of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (hereafter ASCSA) and the Manuscripts Division of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library, this extensive collection of some six thousand images of Greece provides an overview of Alison Frantz's work wherein the craft of her photography is intimately mingled with her deep scholarly interest in the physical remains of Hellenic culture.1 It is this unusual combination of artistic talent and academic scrutiny that motivates the present study and encourages us to speculate upon the precise nature of her scholarly photographs, the inspiration for their production and the personal philosophy underpinning her long and prolific career.
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