17 – 31 Οctober 2009 / Basilica of Saint Marcus, Heraklion

Exhibition curated by: Nina Kassianou, Vangelis Ioakimidis
Co-organization TMP /Municipality of Heraklion (Photopolis)
From the TMP and the National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum and the Skopelos Photography Center archives and collections.

Greek photography from the mid-war period till the 1970s is unfolded in Heraklion, Crete, through the 190 works of eleven important Greek photographers: Andreas Embeirikos, Konstantinos Zimeris, Sokrates Iordanidis, Dimitris Letsios, Spyros Meletzis, Nelly’s, Theodoros Nikoleris, Voula Papaioannou, Yiannis Stylianou, Dimitris Harissiadis, Maria Chroussachi. A TMP production, which attempts to outline the tendencies developed in the history of Greek photography of the period, is divided into five sections: “Mask and Body”, “Material and Form”, “Man and landscape”, “Portrait and memory’, “Traces and testimonies”.

Exhibition series: Dialogues: Classic and Contemporary Greek Artists