Visual Studies, Contemporary Archaeology

In the Camera's Lens: An Interview with Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor

by Tim Clack

co-authored with Dr Marcus Brittain (CAU, University of Cambridge, UK)

Each with over thirty years experience with the media, Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor have broadcast their message of... more Each with over thirty years experience with the media, Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor have broadcast their message of archaeology through many different media and in their own individual ways to audiences around the world. Having written
extensively on many archaeological themes for academic and
public audiences, public archaeology in the United States and
the UK has grown and matured through their combined experience and would be much the poorer today if not for their continued passion and energy. When placed together in the
following interview (carried out via email correspondence in
the summer and early winter 2005), their views regarding current
themes from ‘archaeology and the media’ offer insightful
glimpses into the connections and distinctions between British
and American perspectives.