Constantine Manos@Benaki Museum

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Constantine Manos
A Greek portfolio 50 years later
22/05/2013 - 25/08/2013

Κωνσταντίνος Μάνος
A Greek portfolio
50 χρόνια μετά
(Constantine Manos A Greek portfolio 50 years later)

Rendering homage to Constantine Manos, prominent artist of the Greek
Diaspora, the Benaki Museum presents an exhibition / tribute to his
renowned photographic series A Greek Portfolio.
With his exquisite images Manos invites us to travel with him to
remote villages and islands of Greece in the nineteen sixties, where,
in a landscape of simple farm life and tranquillity, poor yet proud
people struggle to survive with dignity, dedicated to a way of life
that hadn't changed for centuries.
His photographs crystallise fleeting everyday moments, in a spare and
austere style, which is nevertheless tender, without any pompous
rhetoric.

Marking the 50th anniversary of putting together A Greek Portfolio,
Constantine Manos re-examines the shots he took during the period
1961-1964 (to which he added more in 1967), when he travelled the
breadth and length of his parents' country, "as a friendly observer",
he stated, "with no rush or specific plan" and offers a different
reading of his material.
The first part of the exhibition presents a group of original prints
of his photographs, which he chose himself in 1972 to illustrate the
portfolio of the same name.
In the second part the themes were selected from amongst 219 original
prints, which the photographer recently donated to the Museum's
Photographic Archive, and which he did not include in his composition
of A Greek Portfolio.

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