Το δυτικό βλέμμα και η ελληνική φωτογραφία : η περίπτωση της Nelly’s
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.7, No.1, 1999, pages 91-103
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The western gaze and Greek photography : the case of Nelly’s
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The issue discussed here concerns the cultural imposition that is achieved silently, without resistance, through the interaction between two powerful overcoded systems, that appear as natural: visual perception, in other words the gaze, and photography, a medium that affirms but also forms our perception. The Western gaze, as a particular way of interpreting and evaluating the world, and photography, as its technical medium and means of reproduction, have exerted a pervasive infuence on the way we perceive, interpret, manage and evaluate both reality and its photographic substitutes. Greek photography, in all of its forms and uses, has been heavily determined by both these systems. An exemplary casehere is the work of Nelly ’s. In the latter, the aesthetic and ideological heritage of the Western gaze combine in order to depict, through a truly remarkable iconography, an imaginary Greece.
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