Athens 1839-1900 - A Photographic Record

Benaki Museum, 2004. Soft cover, 29x30 cm, 324 pp. ISBN: 978-960-8347-08-3.

This book contains 328 photographs of 19th-century Athens selected from public and private collections in Greece and abroad and placed in three categories on the basis of the evolution of photographic processes. The pictures of the city, its monuments and society go hand in hand with a sampling of representative works by the earliest photographers, to whose work the introductory texts refer. The photographs are accompanied by comments, wherever necessary, that explain or enrich the subject depicted with historical information. Indeed, regarding public figures from the citys political or financial life, the captions are extended to cover the historic events with which the subject is associated. The book is supplemented with biographical notes about Greek and foreign photographers, as well as a glossary of photographic terms.

En la publicacion se incluyen 328 fotografias de la Atenas del siglo XIX seleccionadas de entre colecciones publicas y privadas de Grecia y el extranjero, que constituyen tres unidades con el criterio de la evolucion de la tecnica fotografica. El reflejo fotografico de la ciudad, de sus monumentos y su sociedad, avanza a la par de la representacion mostrativa de los primeros fotografos, a cuya obra por otra parte se refieren los textos introductorios. Los temas fotograficos vienen acompanados de comentarios cuando es necesario, para que la informacion historica pueda interpretar o enriquecer el tema representado. Precisamente, en las personalidades de la vida politica y economica de la ciudad, las notas se extienden a hechos historicos con los cuales se relaciona el fotografiado. La publicacion viene completada por los curriculum de los fotografos griegos y extranjeros, asi como por un glosario de terminos fotograficos.

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