1950’s, Greek Tourist Guide Modern Athens, First Edition, Pechlivanidis, Kostas Dimitriadis

Description

Greek Vintage Travel (Photo) Guide

ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΑΘΗΝΑ – SYNCHRONI ATHINA

MODERN ATHENS

 

Text by Kostas Dimitriadis

Photos by Maria Chrousaki, N. Emmanouil, Megaloikonomou, Hatzistylianos  and others

Published by M. Pechlivanidis, Athens in the 1950’s

 

Original Soft Cover

18 Pages of text

184 Pages Pictures and explanations

24 cm x 18 cm (approx. 9,5inch. x 7inch.)

First Edition

Language: Greek

 

Maria Chrousaki (1899-1972) was a Greek photographer and volunteer nurse. She was born in Smyrna in December 1899. Her family moved to Athens before 1922 (Burning of Smyrna), maintaining their property and living according to the standards of the bourgeois society of the time. During the 1930s-1950s, she traveled throughout Greece, capturing with her photographic lens the Greek countryside, landscapes and everyday life. Her archive includes 35 albums of black and white photographs and their corresponding negatives, with subjects such as dancers, fishermen and scenes from everyday life. In 1971, she donated her archive to the National Gallery.