28 November 2012 – 21 July Exhibition opening: December 1 at 20.00.
The opening of the exhibition will be held by the Vice-Governor of Thessaloniki, Apostolos Tzitzikostas
Curators: Vangelis Ioakimidis, Aliki Tsirliagkou
The current exhibition (Part A) covers the period from Liberation to the Interwar period while Part B from the Second World War to the Political Changeover and Part C, from the Political Changeover till In the introductory section there are indicative photographs of the Ottoman Thessaloniki, before the liberation, where an “unintentional multiculturalism” dominates. The White Tower surrounded by its walls, portraits of different ethnicities, children’s faces from the last century.
The first section The Tumult of War presents a city which is in constant turmoil, a step before a conflict or on the verge of another. The images here describe this “swinging” between those events, while the main importance is shifted to the simple everyday life of the soldiers.
The second section The Roar of Fire, refers to the big fire of 1917 which changed completely the appearance of the city, leaving a great part of its architectural heritage to the silence of the ashes.
The third section which is the main part of the exhibition is The City Buzz. Families, images from photographers’ studios, landmarks and neighbourhoods, middle class people, uprooted refugees, wedding and funeral scenes, school excursions, strolls –a city alive.
In the back of the exhibition the sound of the city becomes more intense, as there are selected documentaries of Thessaloniki and relevant bibliography, which enable the viewer to use also historical tools in order to reach beyond history.
The material of this exhibition derives from the following sources: Museum of Photography Thessaloniki, Yiannis Megas collection, Aggelos Papaioannou collection, Aris Papatzikas collection, A.&L. Haitoglou collection, Thessaloniki History Centre, Photographic Archive Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive / National 
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