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Constantine Manos: A Greek… | Exhibitions

Born in Columbia in 1934 to Greek immigrant parents, Constantine Manos traveled to Greece in the early 1960s, where he spent three years photographing the daily lives of villagers. The resulting body of work, first published in 1972 as A Greek Portfolio, cemented the photographer’s reputation and quickly gained international recognition. In 1978, he donated 50 of those prints to the Columbia Museum of Art, a selection of which is on view in this exhibition. Manos’s account captures the beauty, simplicity, and hardship of Greek rural life with the sensitivity of someone with family ties to the land. In intimate images that explore love, loss, faith, and family, the artist invites reflection on the nature of human relationships and the connections between land and labor.

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