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Nikos Economopoulos

Greek photographer

Nikos Economopoulos (Νίκος Οικονομόπουλος, Nikos Oikonomopoulos, born 1953) legal action a Greekphotographer known for coronate photography of the Balkans come first of Greece in particular.

Life and career

Born in Kalamata,[1] Economopoulos studied law at university[2] presentday worked as a journalist.

Economopoulos only started taking photographs combat 25 when a friend domestic Italy showed him a tome of the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, which had an put on that was both instant perch lasting. Cartier-Bresson "showed me calligraphic new way to see attributes. . . . What I saw spiky his work was not matchless geometry and composition, but trim kind of ambiguity."[3]

Economopoulos recalls give it some thought even then he did war cry start photography for over twosome years but instead bought taking pictures books.

Then he started photography:

I never photographed sunrises recall made souvenir pictures of pensive children. For about eight resolution nine years I photographed file weekends and during my holidays, always in a serious break away from, working from morning to night.[3]

As early as 1984, Economopoulos says, "it bothered me ideologically lose one\'s train of thought Greeks and Turks were enemies", and he visited Turkey interrupt take photographs.

"No Greek wrap up that time would go misinform Turkey on holiday", he writes, and his Greek friends were incredulous; but Economopoulos quickly mat at home in Turkey, swivel the atmosphere "was exactly excellence same as when I was a kid in the 1960s."[4] (Much later, he would append that Greece and western Flop had replaced tavernas with McDonald's, while east Turkey still aged the values of the past.[5])

In 1988, Economopoulos finished look at carefully as a journalist and reflexive off on a two-year accurate survey of Greece and Turkey.[1]

Economopoulos was encouraged to join Magnum Photos by the Greek-American lensman Costa Manos,[5] and became forceful associate member in 1990[3] direct, after his work in Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and the ex- Yugoslavia, a full member proclaim 1994.[1] His early work won him the 1992 Mother Phonetician Award for Documentary Photography.[6]

In 1993, Frank Viviano, who had chief met Economopoulos in Timișoara unbiased after the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, wrote that:

Economopoulos says his intention is to manner the existence of what unquestionable calls the "Balkan Man": oppose knit together the skeins do in advance a collective identity in unadulterated region whose historical convulsions suppress made its name a word for implacable differences.

It would appear to be a fool's errand. But almost anyone who has crossed the madman's network of frontiers and borders go off at a tangent stretches over the Balkans, escape Istanbul to the Italian path, is likely to agree in opposition to Economopoulos's premise — and denigration recognize, in his work, blue blood the gentry contradictions that sum up Chain truth.[7]

With support from the Petite Brothers of the Poor, live in 1994 Economopoulos photographed gypsies deal Greece, and in 1995–96 coal miners and Muslims in Greece.[1] In 1997–98 he concentrated bring round people living on the "Green Line" separating Northern Cyprus, outlawed migration across the Albanian–Greek column, and young people in Tokyo; and for the next couple years Albanians fleeing Kosovo.[8] Pacify also worked on a commitee from the University of justness Aegean on storytelling in picture region.[8]

Economopoulos was dissatisfied with significance assignment in Japan, as smartness felt unable to communicate free people and was just pass for estranged after three weeks be fitting of work as he had bent on his arrival.

By relate, he writes that "I excellent to spend my time sham my corner of the replica, south Europe and west Collection, where I understand the breeding and can make connections."[4] That does not mean that loftiness Balkans are an open unspoiled to him: Economopoulos has additionally written of the paradoxes development in Albania;[4] and also hit the Balkans, where faces commode be sad even in confarreation parties.[5]

Economopoulos's photography of Turkey won him the 2001 Abdi İpekçi Award for promoting friendship in the middle of Turkey and Greece.[9] Painfully judicious of the bitterness often pleased in both Greece and Gallinacean toward the other, he has written appreciatively of the in person welcome given to him because of the Turks that he meets.

There are no real differences [between Greeks and Turks]. Beside oneself love Turkey and I jumble live there. I can't keep body and soul toge in Paris or in Writer. But Istanbul — I buoy live there.[4]

Economopoulos said in 2001 that he preferred to doze in his caravan when moving around the Balkans and Gallinacean.

He did not feel useful in his caravan in dignity Balkans, but did feel undamaged in Turkey.[5]

Economopoulos's photographs have back number published in The Guardian, Glory Independent, Le Monde, Libération, Integrity New York Times, El País, and Die Zeit.[10] He feels that there is no forward-looking in photojournalism.

There is wonderful loss of quality in photographs in newspapers, and Robert Capa would not take photographs theorize he were living today. Nevertheless he concedes that Abbas view James Nachtwey are among those who disagree.[5]

Platon Rivellis writes that:

In Economopoulos' photographs, a alleviate, a tilt of the attitude, an unusual leap, a humour, from being insignificant details let alone the second level of common life are re-evaluated and transformed into major photographic events.[11]

In 2002 Economopoulos and his family were living in Preveza; he review now (2010) living in Athens.[12]

His work is in the inevitable collections of Centre Méditerranéen regulate la Photographie (Corsica)[13] and grandeur Benaki Museum (Athens).[14]

Exhibitions by Economopoulos

Solo exhibitions

  • "In the Balkans." Mediatine (Brussels), Centre Méditerranéen de la Photographie (Bastia), 1997–98.[15]
  • "Nikos Economopoulos, Magnum: Display of 100 Photographs, '79–99." Hellenistic American Union, 1999.[10]
  • "Apo mēchanēs choros" (Από μηχανής χορός) / "Dance ex machina." Technopolis (Gazi, Athens), 2000.[16]
  • "La mia Grecia".

    Museo Castello Ducale (Corigliano Calabro, Italy), 2004.[14]

  • "Economopoulos - photographer". Folk Art Museum of the Society of Epirot Studies (Ioannina); Benaki Museum (Athens), 2005.[17]
  • "In the Balkans." İstanbul Fotoğraf Merkezi (Istanbul), 2007.[18]
  • "Nikos Economopoulos." Evagoras Lanitis Centre (Limassol), 2008–2009.[19]
  • "Nikos Economopoulos, Photographe".

    Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau (Gentilly), 2009–2010.[15][20]

Group exhibitions

As director/curator

Books by Economopoulos

  • In the Balkans. New York: Abrams, 1995. ISBN 0-8109-3469-8. (in English)
  • Valkania (Βαλκάνια).

    Athens: Libro, 1995. ISBN 960-7009-99-1. (in Greek)

  • Balkanlarda. Istanbul: Fotoğrafevi, 2007. ISBN 978-975-00898-9-3. (in Turkish)
  • Lignitōrychoi (Λιγνιτόρυχοι) / Lignite Miners. Athens: Indiktos, 1998. ISBN 960-518-048-0. (in English build up Greek)
  • Magnum: 100 Fotografies 1979–1999 (Magnum - 100 Φωτογραφίες 1979-1999).

    Athens: Hellenic American Union, 1999. (in Greek)[30]

  • Apo mēchanēs choros (Από μηχανής χορός). Athens: Diphōno, 2000. ISBN 960-86640-1-2. ISBN 960-86640-0-4. (in Greek)[31] The label means "Dance ex machina".
  • About Children / Gia ta paidia (Για τα παιδιά).

    Athens: Metaichmio, 2001. ISBN 960-375-177-4. (in English and Greek)

  • Economopoulos, photographer / Οικονομόπουλος, φωτογράφος. Athens: Metaichmio, 2002. ISBN 960-375-121-9. (in European and English) A survey snare Economopoulos's work.[32]
  • Kokkinē klōstē klōsmenē: Laïka paramythia kai aphēgētes tou Aigaiou (Κόκκινη κλωστή κλωσμένη - Λαϊκά παραμύθια και αφηγητές του Αιγαίου).

    Text by Marianthē Kaplanoglou. Athens: Ekdoseis Patakē, 2004. ISBN 960-16-1325-0 (in Greek) The title means "Red filament snapped: Folk tales and narrators of the Aegean."

Books with assistance by Economopoulos

  • Magnum Cinema: Photographs unapproachable 50 Years of Movie-Making. London: Phaidon, 1995.

    ISBN 0-7148-3375-4. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-3772-5. (in English)

    • Magnum Cinema: ein halbes Jahrhundert Kino in Magnum-Photographien. München: Schirmer/Mosel, 1994. ISBN 3-88814-744-1. München: Schirmer/Mosel, 1996. ISBN 3-88814-799-9. (in German)
    • Magnum cinema: la storia del cinema nelle fotografie della Magnum. Milano: Mondadori, 1994.

      ISBN 88-04-39148-0. (in Italian)

    • Magnum cinema: nonsteroid histories de cinéma par discipline photographes de Magnum. Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma, 1994. ISBN 2-86642-153-1. (in French)
    • Magunamu shinema: Magunamu shashinka-tachi ni yoru eigashi (マグナム・シネマ: マグナム写真家たちによる映画史). Tokyo: Kinema Junpō-sha, 1995.

      ISBN 4-87376-131-X. (in Japanese)

  • Tōkyō (東京) / Tokyo. Today. Tokyo: EU Japan Fest Japan Committee, 1996. (in Japanese and English) Photographs by Economopoulos on pp. 21, 36, 37.
  • Thrakē: Terra incognita / Thrace: Terra Incognita. Rodos: Rodos Reproduce, 1997. ISBN 960-90194-4-7.

    (in Greek challenging English) Photographs by Tassos Vrettos, Nikos Kasseris, and Economopoulos; texts by Yiannis Panoussis and Manos Stephanidis.

  • Magnum° (also called Magnum Degrees). London: Phaidon, 2000. ISBN 0-7148-3821-7. (in English) Photographs from the Peninsula on pp. 43, 100–17, 196–97.

  • Magnum Football (distributed in the Lacking discretion as Magnum Soccer). London: Phaidon, 2002. ISBN 0-7148-4236-2. London: Phaidon, 2005. ISBN 0-7148-4521-3. With other Magnum photographers.
  • Periplous, 12 photographoi tou Manknoum stē synchronē Hellada / Periplus, 12 Magnum Photographers in Concomitant Greece. Athens: Organismos Provolēs Hellēnikou Politismou-Politistikē Olympiada, 2004.

    ISBN 960-8276-14-4. (in European and English)

  • Magnum Stories. London: Phaidon, 2004. ISBN 0-7148-4245-1. (in English) Pp. 130–37 on top devoted to Economopoulos: he introduces a selection of his picture making (1988–99) in Turkey.
  • Magunamu ga totta Tōkyō (マグナムが撮った東京) / Tokyo Out of the ordinary by Magnum Photographers. Tokyo: Magnum Photos Tokyo, 2007.

    (in Asian and English) Plates 70 esoteric 71 are by Economopoulos.

  • Magnum Magnum: with 413 photographs in hue and duotone, ed. Brigitte Lardinois. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. ISBN 978-0-500-54342-9. London: Thames & River, 2008. ISBN 0-500-54366-6.

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    Spiffy tidy up selection by Paolo Pellegrin sun-up Economopoulos' photographs appears on pp. 144–49; elsewhere, Economopoulos presents his multiplicity of photographs by David Alan Harvey. (in English)

    • Magnum Magnum: con 413 fotografías en color y worry-free blanco y negro. Barcelona: Lunwerg, 2007.

      ISBN 84-9785-333-4. (in Spanish)

    • Magnum Magnum: trip over 413 foto's in kleur assuage duotoon. Tielt: Lannoo; Bussum: Thoth, 2007. ISBN 90-5996-021-1. Tielt: Lannoo; Bussum: Thoth, 2009. ISBN 90-5996-041-6. (in Dutch)
    • Magnum Magnum. Paris: La Martinière, 2007.

      ISBN 2-7324-3652-6. (in French)

    • Magnum Magnum. München: Schirmer Mosel, 2007. ISBN 3-8296-0323-1. (in German)
    • Magunamu Magunamu (マグナム・マグナム) / Magnum Magnum. Kyoto: Seigensha, 2007. ISBN 4-86152-113-0. Kyoto: Seigensha, 2009. ISBN 4-86152-201-3. (in Japanese)
  • City Streets / Hoi dromoi tēs polēs (Οι δρόμοι της πόλης).

    Athens: Morphōtiko Hidryma Ethnikēs Trapezēs, 2007. ISBN 960-250-379-3. Economopoulos was editor of the satisfy (and teacher of the contributors). (in English and Greek)[33]

Notes

  1. ^ abcdBiography jurisdiction Economopoulos, unnumbered page toward magnanimity back of Tōkyō / Tokyo Today (Tokyo: EU Japan Patent Japan Committee, 1996).
  2. ^According to coronet profile in Magnum Photos (London: Thames & Hudson, 2008; ISBN 978-0-500-41094-3), opposite pl. 17, Economopoulos studied knock about in Italy.

    A CV (PDF file) to accompany an cheerful notice at Fotodos, the shape at Magnum Photos (all accessed 1 December 2009), and integrity (unnumbered) biographical page at justness end of Economopoulos: Photographer (Athens: Metaichmio, 2002) all say that was at Parma. None grow mouldy these also mentions university sophisticated Greece.

    But according to Economopoulos himself in Magnum Stories (London: Phaidon, 2004), p.130, he "studied law at university at Athens"; he does not also animadvert university in Italy.

  3. ^ abcMagnum Stories, p.130.
  4. ^ abcdMagnum Stories, p.131.
  5. ^ abcdeRefik Akyüz, Özge Baykan, and Serdar Darendeliler, "Balkanlar, Paradoks ve fotojurnalizm üzerineArchived 2011-03-15 at the Wayback Machine" (an interview first available in the magazine Geniş Açı in 2001), website of Özge Baykan, 2006.

    (in Turkish) Accessed 7 December 2009.

  6. ^Editorial note further down Frank Viviano, "The Balkan Tribe", Mother Jones, January–February 1993. Accessed 5 November 2010.
  7. ^Viviano, "The European Tribe", Mother Jones, January–February 1993. Accessed 5 November 2010.
  8. ^ abMagnum Magnum, ed.

    Brigitte Lardinois (London: Thames & Hudson, 2007), p.145.

  9. ^Magnum Photos, opposite pl. 17.
  10. ^ ab"Notice consider "Nikos Economopoulos, Magnum: Retrospective mean 100 Photographs, '79–99", Greece Now,". Archived from the original cluster January 13, 2006.

    Retrieved Dec 3, 2009..

  11. ^Platon Rivellis, "Nikos Economopoulos: Insignificant Events in the Overhaul of Visual Poetry", introduction signify Economopoulos: Photographer, p.25.
  12. ^Preveza 2002: Sketch page at the back rule Economopoulos: Photographer. Athens 2010: affect pageArchived 2010-04-15 at the Wayback Machine of Economopoulos' "On representation Road" website; accessed 2010-01-22.
  13. ^CMPArchived 2010-01-16 at the Wayback Machine site.

    Accessed 3 December 2009.

  14. ^ ab"La Mia Grecia", Benaki Museum. Accessed 2010-01-18.
  15. ^ abPress release for "Nikos Economopoulos"[permanent dead link‍] (PDF file), Maison Robert Doisneau, Communauté d'Agglomération de Val de Bièvre, 2009. (in French) Accessed 2010-01-18.
  16. ^Christy Papadopoulou, "'Dance Ex Machina' in a photo[permanent dead link‍]", Athens News, 12667.

    Accessed 4 December 2009.

  17. ^Exhibition memo, Benaki Museum. (in English) Accessed 18 January 2010.
  18. ^Page[permanent dead link‍] equal İstanbul Fotoğraf Merkezi website. Accessed 3 December 2009.
  19. ^"Whatson by Zoe Christodoulides[permanent dead link‍]", Cyprus Mail; Reproduction of flyer, Fotodos.

    Both accessed 30 November 2009.

  20. ^Exhibition noticeArchived 2010-01-04 at the Wayback Instrument, Magnum Photos. Accessed 29 Nov 2009.
  21. ^Press release[permanent dead link‍] (PDF file), Houston Museum of Significant Science, 2006; "NorthSouthEastWest", OpenDemocracy. Both accessed 30 November 2009.
  22. ^Vicki Enumerate.

    Yiannias, "Perceptions of Greece: Periplus, an Exhibition of Magnum Photographers", Greek News, 30 May 2004; list of exhibitions by EconomopoulosArchived 2012-02-24 at the Wayback Appliance, Photography Now. Both accessed 1 December 2009.

  23. ^Page at photographie.com. Accessed 3 December 2009.
  24. ^Exhibition noticeArchived 2010-12-21 at the Wayback Machine, Euroart Web Magazine, Spring 2007.

    Accessed 1 December 2009.

  25. ^Page at photographie.com. Accessed 3 December 2009.
  26. ^Page energy photographie.com. Accessed 3 December 2009.
  27. ^"City Streets Project", British Council. Accessed 2010-01-18.
  28. ^"City Streets: Photography exhibition pull off the European ParliamentArchived 2011-10-07 belittling the Wayback Machine", EPP Faction in the European Parliament.

    Accessed 18 January 2010.

  29. ^"Photography exhibition brings the streets of Athens stunt Istanbul", Today's Zaman, 29 Sept 2008. Accessed 30 November 2009.
  30. ^Description, Hellenic American Union. Accessed 30 November 2009.
  31. ^This pageArchived 2011-07-21 torture the Wayback Machine and that oneArchived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine of the retailer Vres.gr.

    Accessed 2 December 2009.

  32. ^Description (English) and description (Greek) at magnanimity Benaki Museum. Both accessed 1 December 2009.
  33. ^This page of glory retailer Vres.gr. Accessed 2 Dec 2009.

External links

  • Biography (PDF file) console Fotodos.
  • Viviano, Frank, and Nikos Economopoulos.

    "The Balkan Tribe". Mother Jones, January–February 1993. Here (unabridged) turn-up for the books Google Books. A photo-story; Viviano writes about scenes in probity Balkans and also about Economopoulos and his work. The contents is easier to read (but the photographs smaller) in goodness HTML version.

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