The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun

This is the story of an unsung hero of photography: Harry Burton, the man whose images of the Tutankhamun excavation created a global sensation in the 1920s. Presenter Margaret Mountford explores the spectacular locations where Burton worked, including Tutankhamun’s tomb, and investigates how Burton’s photographs inspired a craze for Egyptian designs and made archaeologist Howard Carter an international celebrity. She discovers why Burton’s images are still studied by Egyptologists. And she works with a present-day photographer, Harry Cory Wright, to discover how Burton pushed the boundaries of photography to create his extraordinary pictures of the world’s most famous archaeological discovery.