THE INVENTION OF LANDSCAPE
Greek Landscape and Greek Photography, 1870-1995
Group exhibition, part of the Thessaloniki Photosynkyria 96
Vafopoulio Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki
Organised by Camera Obscura, with the collaboration of the Benaki Museum and of the Greek Historical and Literary Archive (ELIA)
Participants
Dimitris Alatzadakis, Yangos Athanassopoulos, Erieta Attali, Alexandros Avramidis, Manolis Baboussis, Kostas Balafas, Eleni Bardani, Loukas Benakis, Giuseppe Berinda , Frederick Boissonnas, Andonis Chaniotis, Maria Chrysikou, Yiorgos Depollas, Ingo Duennebier, Andonios Ekonomidis, A. Frantzis , Aris Georgiou, A. Gyzikis, Dimitris Harisiadis, Eleni Maligoura, Spyros Meletzis, Dimitrios Mihailidis, Petros Moraitis, Nikos Panayotopoulos, Voula Papaioannou, Paris Petridis, Romaïdis Brothers, Brother Spyridon Samios, Elly Seraidari (Nelly), John Stathatos, Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Theophilos Stoupiadis, Takis Tloupas, Nikolaos Tombazis, Yiorgos Tsaousakis, Underwood & Underwood, Velissarios Voutsas
Exhibition history
• 1996 Vafopoulio Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki, Photosynkyria 96 (9/96)
• 1997 Peoples' Cultural Palace, Peking (5/97)
Publications
• The Invention of Landscape: Greek Landscape and Greek Photography, 1870-1995. Text by John Stathatos. Camera Obscura, Thessaloniki 1996. Bilingual Greek/English.
• Η Επινόηση του Τοπίου, 1870-1995. Essay by Hercules Papaioannou. Exhibition catalogue, Vafopoulio Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki 1996.
• Η Επινόηση του Τοπίου: Ελληνικό Τοπίο και Ελληνική Φωτογραφία. Exhibition catalogue, Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens 1997. Bilingual Greek/Chinese.
• Die Entdeckung der Landschaft: Grechische Landschaft und Griechsishe Fotografie. Published to accompany the interactive version of the exhibition, designed by Costis Antoniadis for the Photography Centre of Athens, at Frankfurt Book Fair, 2001. Bilingual Greek/German.
• Γιάννης Σταθάτος, "Η Επινόηση του Τοπίου: Ελληνικό Τοπίο και Ελληνική Φωτογραφία", original Greek text reprinted in Η Ελληνική φωτoγραφία και η φωτογραφία στην Ελλάδα, edited by Hercules Papaioannou, Nefeli, Athens 2013