Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities

ISBN-13: 9780367879198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 396 str.

Philip Carabott; Yannis Hamilakis; Eleni Papargyriou

Opis

Modern Greece and photography are almost peers: both are cultural products of the 1830s, and both actively converse with modernity. This is the first inter-disciplinary volume to examine Greece’s entanglement with photography. The book argues that photographs and the photographic process have been instrumental in the reproduction of national imagin

Spis treści

Part 1 Imag(in)ing the Nation:  The three-way mirror: photography as record, mirror and model of Greek national identity.  Greece as photograph: histories, photographies, theories.  Photographing Greece in the 19th century: an overview.  Doors into the past: W.J. Stillman (and Freud) on the Acropolis.  Photographing the present, constructed with the past: Pascal Sebah's photographic mediation of modernisation in 19th-century Greece.  Part 2 Photographic Narratives, Alternative Histories:  The photographic and the archaeological: the 'other Acropolis'.  Greece through the Stereoscope: constituting spectatorship through texts and images.  Archaeology of refraction: temporality and subject in George Seferis's photographs.  Textual contexts of consumption: the Greek literary photobook.  Part 3 Photographic Matter-Realities:  Photography as Propaganda: Once upon a time in Asia Minor: Arnold and Rosalind Toynbee's frames of the Greco-Turkish War in Anatolia (1919-1922).  Nelly's iconography of Greece.  War photographs re-used: an approach to the photograph collection of the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Sarandaporo.  Part 4 Photographic Ethnographies:  The Dispersal of Photographic Objects: From 'here and now' to 'there and then': reflections on fieldwork photography in the 1960s.  Pictures of exile, memories of cohabitation: photography, space and social interaction in the island of Ikaria.  Shepherds as images, shepherds with images: photographic (re)engagements in Sfakia, Crete.  Projecting places: personal photographs, migration and the technology of (re)location.

 

O autorze

Philip Carabott taught modern and contemporary Greek history at King’s College London (1990-2011). He is currently based in Athens as an independent scholar, while remaining a Research Associate at King's College, London, UK.

Yannis Hamilakis is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. 

Eleni Papargyriou is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, where she taught between 2009-13. She has held research and teaching positions at Oxford University, Princeton University and the University of Ioannina, Greece.