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Aegean Ex Altis

by Ioli Vingopoulou

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This book of lovely aerial photography reveals a novel aspect of the islands that dot the Aegean blue. As we gaze upon them from the air they turn into stunning artworks: the traditional dwellings and picturesque chapels, the ancient ruins here and there, al set amidst geological formations that are as fantastic as they are diverse. Above the Aegean (Aegean Ex Altis) offers a totally new approach tot the way we look at familiar places; they take on a numinous aura all of a sudden, as the camera lens captures them from above. All sense of spatiality becomes transformed; fields of vision are realigned; and the result is a narrative of landscape invested with a metaphysical quality. It is precisely by dint of this effect that soaring photography exerts its fascinating appeal; though the potency of images recording a habitat disengaged from the constraints of gravitation. ( )
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