Διασχίζοντας την Κύπρο με μια κάμερα : η ταλάντευση ανάμεσα στην όμορφη και την οργιώδη φύση
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.7, No.1, 1999, pages 105-119
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Through Cyprus with a camera : the ambivalence between beautiful and savage nature
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In 1879, the distinguished photographer John Thomson created a photographic album on Cyprus, the most recent British possession. His work is revealing in many ways. Behind the curtain of the association of photography with the Grand Tour emerges a rather thorough colonization handbook, an early tourist guide, while photography seems to be used simultaneously as a tool of manipulating the British public opinion. Thomson ’s album stands apart for its multilayered use of photography as an illustrative medium, bringing up for discussion crucial, issues for the polysemy of the technical image. His work is also offered for the study of an ingenious and strategic engagement between word and imagery. Finally, it seems to embody a sufficient number of the basic characteristics that were to be found in an era in which the turn towards a visual culture is already a fact.
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Περιέχει φωτογραφίες και βιβλιογραφία
