FIVE CANARY YELLOW STRIPES
by Antonis Katsouris
A typical scene, Canary Islands
under the subtropical sun of the Islas Canarias
Homeward bound, Canary Islands
using a large format camera
Parque de Santa Catalina, Gran Canaria
and Ektachrome film
Gran Canaria Landscape
by the German Elmar Ludwig
A Folk Group, Tajeda, Gran Canaria
sometime in the sixties
five postcards published by the Irish John Hinde Studios
five photographic tableaux; “memories” rather than representations since they permit to the viewer to start his own narration and continue it according to his/her desire.
five idealized images of vacations which have the privilege of an “added value”: the persons-cum-characters, the selection of clothes, the use of objects or even of flora as “extra” parts of a stylization, a mannerism, an elaborate magnification which make these cards rare samples of an idyllic and anachronistic camp…
camp postale
… which transports, shifts, “drifts” the scenes of the idylls to places and times of innocence, if not happiness, to the zone where both of them have the luxury of non classification, of originality, of endless disguise
postcards from Atopia.
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