Santorini : Portrait of a Vanished Era

Name: Santorini : Portrait of a Vanished Era
Brand: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.

Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.

SantoriniPortrait of a Vanished Era\nAuthor(s): Robert A. McCabe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., United States\nImprint: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780789213662, 978-0789213662\nSynopsis\nToday Santorini is visited by some [url] million people a year. But when \nRobert McCabe and his brother arrived there in 1954, they were the only \nvisitors on the island. In this collection of stunning photographs from \nthe 1950s and 1960s - reproduced as tritones of surpassing quality - \nMcCabe has recorded the hardscrabble, yet often romantic, life of a \nvanished era. Picturesque whitewashed houses dug into the volcanic \npumice; the harvest of the island's famous cherry tomatoes; the winding \nroad to the ruins of ancient Thera - all this was captured by his lens. \nMcCabe's photographs are complemented by two essays from the noted Greek\n journalist Margarita Pournara, one poetically evoking her grandmother's\n childhood on Santorini and the other explaini.