AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. Very important of... - Lot 39 - Lasseron & Associés

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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. Very important of... - Lot 39 - Lasseron & Associés
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. Very important of more than two thousand three hundred silver prints laminated or not on cardboard, negatives and documents, attributed to Colette CASTEL-BALTZAKIS. Circa 1950-70. Subjects : Greece, Crete, Algeria, etc. Legends indicated on mounts: "Cretan houses", "Ioannina", "Fishermen's houses - Island of Ioannina - Greece", Beaches Greece", "Gypsies - Greece", "Cretan market", "Beach - Piraeus", "Plaka-Athens-Greece", "Isthmus of Corinth", "Heraklion", "Earthquake of Kalamata - Greece", "Procession - Greece", "Acropolis - Greece", "Hatzikiriakion", "Nomads - Greece", "Plaka - Greece", "Cretan village", etc. Various states and formats. AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. Very important of more than two thousand three hundred silver prints laminated or not on cardboard, negatives and documents, attributed to Colette CASTEL-BALTZAKIS. Colette CASTEL-BALTZAKIS (1926-2014) Wife Synodinos, photographer. The newspaper "Afrique Dimanche" dated ....., headlines an article "Colette Baltzakis and Albert Camus will make a book (of photos) on Algiers" (...) "This young girl (...) is an Algerian who knows Algiers well: Colette Baltzakis is attached to make known to Parisians the cubic aspect of the old city of the Barberousses brothers. Daughter of a decorator, influenced herself by her artistic training, she neglects the nuances to work her shots like a painter who would use, for his paintings, only the black and white (...) Albert Camus, struck by the analogy of the photographic vision of Colette Albert Camus, struck by the analogy between the Algerian photographic vision of Colette Baltzakis and his own literary vision, as he described it in "l'étranger", decided to write the texts of the album that the young photographer will have published.
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