09 — FROM THE BOOK
Tatakis’ pictorial representations celebrate both human labour and adaptability to harsh physical conditions.
Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou
Introduction · page 13
George Tatakis
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OLYMPOS
From Karpathos island to Byzantium
George Tatakis
Easter, weddings, festivals and everyday life in Olympos, Karpathos. Photographs from 2016–2017, with texts by George Tatakis.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Book language
- English
- Photographs & texts
- George Tatakis
- Introduction
- Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou
- Foreword
- Evmorfia Diakogeorgiou
- Editing
- Andrew Farrington
€54.00Hardcover
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Four selections from different parts of the book.
A text introduction to Byzantine Easter in Olympos, opposite a photograph of preparations for the Epitaphios.
An icon procession across village rooftops, opposite a scene inside a local church.
Wedding preparations: the bride’s party and the fastening of the kolaina necklace.
A bell calling the faithful to morning liturgy, opposite an early-morning gathering at Brykous.
- 2016–2017
- the photographic years
- Karpathos
- the place
- Ethos
- the photographic project
- English
- the language of the book
- Hardcover
- the physical edition
08 — CULTURAL CONTINUITY
Tradition, in
the present tense.
O.
The book brings together work made in Olympos and the surrounding communities of Karpathos. Church rituals, wedding preparations, music and work in the fields appear alongside encounters in homes and village cafés. Most of the photographs belong to Ethos; some also became part of Caryatis.
Easter, weddings, festivals and everyday life in Olympos, Karpathos. Photographs from 2016–2017, with texts by George Tatakis.
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09 — FROM THE BOOK
The black-and-white Olympos of George Tatakis is poetry in pictures inspired by local tradition.
Evmorfia Diakogeorgiou
Foreword · page 15
10 — PHYSICAL PRESENCE
Made to be held.
Made to remain.
HardcoverBook language: English
From Karpathos island to Byzantium
11 — THE PUBLICATION
From Karpathos island
to Byzantium.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Book language
- English
- Photographs & texts
- George Tatakis
Hardcover
George Tatakis
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Easter, weddings, festivals and everyday life in Olympos, Karpathos. Photographs from 2016–2017, with texts by George Tatakis.
€54.00Hardcover
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