Greek Seas: A photgraphic journey in time

Greek Seas: A photgraphic journey in time

Greek Seas: A photgraphic journey in time

Greek Seas: A photgraphic journey in time

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Overview

This volume presents a selection of subjects related to the sea by Greek and foreign photographers covering the period from 1850 to today offering a unique journey to the Greek seascape. It brings together images of artistic value which either serve specific ideologies or aim at mass communication. The first foreign travel-photgrahers, who started arriving in the country from 1839 and their few Greek colleagues used to think of the Greek landscape as one with its classical antiquities . The themes of Greek photograhy became more diverse after 1880 due to the technical innovation of the medium. Several decades later during the interwar period the landscape was used as an emblem of national identity, while the Aegean emerged as a particularly timeless symbol. In the decades of 1950 and 1960, well known photographers working with the Greek National Tourism Organization, had their images used in promotional material and posters. In recent decades there has been a more subjective approach to seascapes applying a variety of techniques, minimalist trends and international formalist rules, up until the emergence of the digital image, which goes beyond photographic realism.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789602043288
Publisher: Melissa Publishing House
Publication date: 10/28/2013
Edition description: Bilingual
Pages: 324
Product dimensions: 11.30(w) x 11.30(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements The sea as a critical metaphor Hercules Papaioannou The islands This world, the small, the great Spyros I. Asdrachas The sea in 19th century photography an accidental presence Aliki Tsirgialou The sea as a reflection of human activity from the end of the19th century to the beginning of the 20th the magic of the snapshot Fani Constantinou The photographic depiction of the sea in the interwar years attempts at artistic expression Aliki Tsirgialou The turn to the seascape in the post-war years the Aegean as re-enactment and feeling Fani Constantinou The distant view of the sea in contemporary photography Costis Antoniadis Photo credits

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