Hellas: Photographs of Modern Greece

Buch | Hardcover

140 Seiten

2010
Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-55595-333-1 (ISBN)

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William Abranowicz has photographed Greece for over a decade and his images show all dimensions of Greek life: it's stores, ancient ruins, craggy mountains and villages rising out of brilliant aquamarine waters. Features an introduction by Louis de Bernieres author of the award-winning and international bestseller 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'.

Greek Light is sharp, enigmatic and famed. It has inspired many photographers, but none whose images are as instinctive and powerful as those of William Abranowicz. In making these pictures, Abranowicz was inspired by the classic photographs of Mexico taken by Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, of Ireland and France made by Paul Strand, and also by a number of contemporary and historical writers on Greece, including Antonis Capetanakis, George Seferis, and Constantine Cavafy, as well as Seamus Heaney, Sir Patrick Lee Fermor, and henry Miller. Louis de Bernieres, author of the best-selling Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which was set on the Greek island of Cephalonia in the early days of World War II, has contributed an eloquent and incisive introduction. Hellas reveals a Greece far more complex than the country captured in postcards of the brilliant, blue Aegean, and white-stuccoed houses perched on rocky cliffs. It is an honest, at times unsettling appraisal of a land with a rich and chaotic history that is also the source of much of the foundation of Western European and American Philosophy and culture.
A somewhat darker and totally unique take on a familiar subject, Hellas is a book for the sophisticated traveller and Philhellene, and lover of classical photography. It also provides an excellent introduction to this enigmatic country for those who have never been and are itching to go.

William Abranowicz is best known for his poised and meticulous still life, landscape, and lifestyle images, and his deep affinity for the classical forms of interiors and exteriors. His photographs appear frequently in Conde Nast Traveler, Martha Stewart Living, Gourmet, The New York Times Magazine, Elle Decor, Town & Country, and Vanity Fair, as well as international publications. His first photographic tribute to the landscapes of Greece, The Greek File: Images of a Mythic Land, was published by Rizzoli in 2001. He lives with his family in Bedford, New York.

Illustrationen	William Abranowicz
Überarbeitung	Louis de Bernieres
Zusatzinfo	85 col
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	250 x 310 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Themenwelt	Bildbände ► Europa ► Griechenland
ISBN-10	1-55595-333-6 / 1555953336
ISBN-13	978-1-55595-333-1 / 9781555953331
Zustand	Neuware