Thoughts On The Relationship Of Photography And Sociology

THOUGHTS ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIOLOGY  HARALABOS GIANNACOPOULOS A GENERAL STATEMENT Although the interest of sociologists in photography is of great value, I think that it is the enlarging awareness on the...

Costas Balafas – Experiences, Visions, Art and Folk Tradition

Costas Balafas Experiences, Visions, Art and Folk Tradition Costas Balafas belongs to that charismatic generation of photographers who have created a huge volume and quality of visual work for the next generations. I have...

Right Time, Wrong Place!

Famous photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, on August 14, 1945, following Japan’s unconditional capitulation, ending World War II, captures his most famous photo, “Kiss in Times Square,” which was published in Life magazine. At exactly the...

Andreas Feininger – The Story Behind The Picture

New York, 1951 Andreas Feininger Andreas Feininger’s photo is one of Life magazine’s most recognizable covers and one of the most frequently reproduced photographs. But what do we know about this photo? The image...

Josef Koudelka – Prague 1968

In 1968, thirty-year-old Josef Koudelka was a renowned theater photographer who had never photographed a news event. On August 20, 1968, military forces of the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia to suppress the so-called “Spring...

Elliott Erwitt – Mother and Child

One of the most widely recognized and reproduced images and ode to motherhood to date is the photograph of Elliott Erwitt’s wife, with their newborn daughter and their cat, in 1953, in their small...