Title:
Toil in Greece, 1900-1960

Subject:
Nikos Politis Collection

Introduction-text:
Katerina Schina

Editing:
Vaso Avramopoulou

Editions:
Rizareios Foundation & Stavros I. Niarchos Foundation

Language:
Greek

Pages: 299

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The black and white photographs from the Nikos Politis Collection, sorted by activities and professions, depict a lengthy period which was still unsuspecting, handmade and hardened in Greece. They reveal the measure of human toil in a slowly changing country. The photographs, along with the texts by Katerina Schina, present an anthropological panorama of everyday relationships and the economy, with a variety of scenes with faces, jobs, workplaces, tools; all in the past, so moving and totally real.