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Item Number: 133512
Title: Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities
Author: Carabott, Philip ; Eleni Papargyriou (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472424761
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 375pp., 87 b&w illus.

Contents: Introduction: Capturing the eternal light: photography and Greece, photography of Greece, Philip Carabott, Yannis Hamilakis and Eleni Papargyriou. Part 1 Imag(in)ing the Nation: The three-way mirror: photography as record, mirror and model of Greek national identity, John Stathatos; Greece as photograph: histories, photographs, theories, Alexandra Moschovi; Photographing Greece in the 19th century, Aliki Tsirgialou; Doors into the past: W. J. Stillman (and Freud) on the Acropolis, Fred Bohrer; Photographing the present, constructed with the past: Sébah’s photographic mediation of modernisation in 19th-century Greece, Heather Grossman. Part 2 Photographic Narratives, Alternative Histories: The photographic and the archaeological: the other Acropolis, Yannis Hamilakis & Fotis Ifantidis; Greece through the Stereoscope. Constituting spectatorship through texts and images, Kostas Ioannidis & Eleni Mouzakiti; Archaeology of refraction: temporality and subject in George Seferis’s photographs, Theodoros Chiotis; Textual contexts of consumption: the Greek literary photobook, Eleni Papargyriou. 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), Giorgos Giannakopoulos; Nelly’s iconography of Greece, Katerina Zacharia; War photographs re-used: an Approach to the photograph collection of the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Sarandaporo, Eleni Kouki. Part 4 Photographic Ethnographies: The Dispersal of Photographic Objects: From ‘here and now’ to ‘there and then’: reflections on fieldwork photography in the nineteen-sixties, Margaret E. Kenna; Pictures of exile, memories of cohabitation: photography, space and social interaction in the island of Ikaria, Elena Mamoulaki; Shepherds as images, shepherds with images: photographic (re) engagements in Sfakia, Crete, Konstantinos Kalantzis; Personal photographs, migration and the technology of (re), Penelope Papailias. Part 5 Afterword: Photography and Greece - a historian’s perspective, Ludmilla Jordanova. (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, 16)

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