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Sarasota News Leader June 14, 2013 Page 89 ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURED AT BRADENTON MUSEUM Workers carry away baskets full of dirt in a stark, almost surreal landscape at Nippur in Iraq in 1899. A Mapidian man shoots fish with a bow and arrow at the edge of a river in the Amazon rain forest of Guyana in 1914. A woman washing newly unearthed artifacts pauses to look into the face of an ancient marble head of a Roman female in Minturnae, Italy, in the early 1930s. Temple I, cleared of clinging vines and partially restored, soars above the Guatemalan jungle, the focal point of Tikal, in 1959. Those are just four of the more than 60 black and white images — places, people and moments captured in time — in Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, on display in the South Florida Museum's East Gallery through Sept. 9, the museum has announced. Brynne Anne Besio, executive director of the South Florida Museum, said in a release, "This exhibition puts a personal and artistic touch on the same types of archaeological and anthropological information that we share with our visitors every day through the permanent exhibits at South Florida Museum. We are able to observe the faces of diverse people as they engage in cultural activities which have slipped away even in the historically short period of time since the photos were taken. We are able to peek into the very sites where human history has been discovered. This research contributes to our understanding of The South Florida Museum is located in Bradenton. Photo by Ebaybe via Wikimedia Commons