American photographer Robert McCabe loved Greece from the first time he visited it in the summer of 1954, ANA reports.
The people, the monuments and the landscape drew his attention and fascinated the then 20-year-old student from Princeton University, who took advantage of every means of transport available to reach the most remote areas of Greece, which he afterwards visited again and again. Today he divides his life and his time between New York and Athens, considering himself both American and Greek, as he told journalists during a press tour of the Archaeological Society of Athens, where his pictures are on display.
The exhibition “Chronographia – Exhibition for the 180 years (1837-2017) of the Archaeological Society” that was inaugurated in December with aim to promote the role of the Society as a key institution for the formation of Greece’s national self-awareness.
Through this tribute, which features 53 black and white photos taken in 1954-1955, areas of huge archaeological importance – such as the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora, Sounio, Knossos, Santorini, Mycenae, Epidaurus and Delos – welcome the visitor to a Greece that, on one hand remains the same yet on the other hand is almost unrecognisable, as the surroundings often indicate.
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