"coffee-table" Books
William Abramowicz The Greek File: Images of a Mythic Land (Rizzoli). An obstinately nostalgic black-and-white look at the country in the 1980s, by this veteran Conde Nast photographer; the main complaint is it fails to take on board the vast changes that had swept through Greece since Manos's pioneering work (see below). Costis Copsides The Jews of Thessaloniki through the Postcards (sic) 1886-1917 (self-published, Thessaloniki). Jewish personalities, business and monuments, and the pre-fire city in general, as seen by Jewish postcard publishers. Chris Hellier Monasteries of Greece (Tauris Parke; St Martin's Press). A magnificently photographed survey of the surviving, active monasteries and their treasures, with insightful accompanying essays. Constantine Manos A Greek Portfolio (W. W. Norton). A long-awaited, reasonably priced reissue of a 1972 classic: the fruits of a gifted Greek-American photographer's three-year odyssey in the early Sixties through a country on the edge of modernization, still essentially unchanged from the 1930s. The quality and insight you'd expect from a member of the Magnum co-operative, in elegiac black-and-white photos. Mark Ottaway The Most Beautiful Villages of Greece (Thames & Hudson, UK). Not exhaustively inclusive, but easily available and with good photos by Hugh Palmer. Clay Perry Vanishing Greece (Conran Octopus; Abbeville Press, both o/p). Well-captioned photos depict the threatened landscapes and relict ways of life in rural Greece; now in paperback. Suzanne Slesin et al Greek Style (Thames & Hudson; Crown). Stunning (if sometimes contrived) designer-tweaked interiors from Corfu, Rhodes and Serifos, among other spots. Janine Trotereau Greece from the Air (Thames & Hudson). A translation of a French-issued work, with photos by Yann Arthus.
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