Robert McCabe in Dialog with Panagiotis Roilos – CompLit

SPEAKER: Robert McCabe, Photographer

“When photographer Robert A. McCabe first got here to Greece as a school pupil in 1954, he discovered a rustic nonetheless scarred by the Axis occupation of World War II and the civil warfare that adopted: poverty was widespread, and the infrastructure was underbuilt and battered. But, on the identical time, these have been years of hope: new ventures starting from delivery traces to state-sponsored vacationer motels to ice cream distribution heralded the nation’s fast improvement into a contemporary European state. And throughout have been seen the great thing about the Greek panorama, the splendour of the Greek archaeological heritage, and the optimism of the Greek folks, who maintained age-old cultural traditions even in essentially the most difficult circumstances.

This quantity, revealed on the event of an essential exhibition on the European Culture Centre of Delphi, collects 118 of essentially the most compelling images that McCabe took in Greece between 1954 and 1965. Working in each black and white and color, he ranged by the mainland, the Peloponnese, and the islands, capturing scenes of a rustic getting ready to fast change.

Furnished with meticulously researched captions, in addition to essays by Panagiotis Roilos, the journalist Katerina Lymperopoulou, and McCabe himself, Greece after the War is a vital visible doc of recent European historical past.”

(from the outline of the e-book Greece after the War, Aberville Press, New York 2023;

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