Lines of Sight
Milestones in the History of Photography
29.06 - 21.09.1997
Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros
Lines of Sight
Milestones in the History of Photography
29.06 - 21.09.1997
The exhibition Lines of Sight presented the history of photography through the works of the most well-known representatives of the various photographic genres (landscape, portrait, war, ethnographic, science and experimental photography, photojournalism, fashion), including pictures by pioneers on the Greek photography scene.
130 photographs were exhibited in all, by 26 foreign and Greek photographers: Nadar (1820-1910), Felice Beato (1832-1909), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), Eugène Atget (1857-1927), Robert Demachy (1859-1936), the brothers Auguste Lumière (1862-1954) and Louis Lumière (1864-1948), Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952), Agustín V. Casasola (1874-1928), Norbert Ghisoland (1878-1939), Alexandre Rodchenko (1891-1956), André Kertész (1894-1985), Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), Josef Sudek (1896-1976), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), Robert Doisneau (1912-1994), Robert Capa (1913-1954), W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000), Sarah Moon (1941- ), Sebastião Salgado (1944- ), Voula Papaïoannou (1898-1990), Nelly's (1899-1998), Spyros Meletzis (1906-2003), Dimitris Harissiadis (1911-1993), Kostas Balafas (1920-2011) and Constantine Manos (1934- ).
The exhibition was accompanied by a fully illustrated trilingual (Greek, English, French) catalogue.
Exhibition Catalog
Lines of Sight, Milestones in the History of Photography
1997 Exhibition Catalogue
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Published
1997
About
[…] The exhibition in Andros offers the public an opportunity to get to know the great classic figures of photography […] the first attempts to give colour to photographs […] and an anthology of top quality photographs. […]
The importance of this exhibition, which opened last weekend in the Basil and Elise Goulandris Museum, is presumed as much from its subject matter as from the names of the photographers and also its organisers. […] As a result, three floors have been excellently arranged so that they host a unity of pictures and photographers in each of their rooms. […] In other words some of the finest examples of modernity in photography. […] In conclusion, we can say that the exhibition Lines of Sight is principally an exhibition of visual delight. […] It is also an instructive exhibition: within the three floors of the Goulandris Museum, and through the pages of the impeccably edited catalogue even the most ignorant can learn much about the adventure that is photography up until approximately the middle of our century. […] It is, finally, a legitimizing exhibition. The Museum in Andros has dared to do something that […] no other institution with similar duties has ever done. It has validated photography, the pure photography of the lens, the film and the photographic paper, and put it on an equal footing with the other arts, offering art lovers a complete overview. It was high time this happened in Greece.
[…] The Andros exhibition is a historic one. And that is how it should be viewed. It includes some excellent moments […] but also focuses its attention on documentary photography. […] Through detailed panels, the visitor is given the chance to follow the course of the exhibition, which is clearly defined, to be informed on the evolution of the medium and, finally, to appreciate its possibilities up until the 1970s. […] Let me also remind you that […] the catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition is an exceptional volume. […]
