Pigassou photo collection here, curated by his grandson Bernard Maurice http://joseph-pigassou.blog4ever.com/ the exhibition deserves an album, at least
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The group used geolocation techniques to identify PoVs & landmarks, as most buildings don't exist anymorepic.twitter.com/K4Ag6IFfpz
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Pigassou left Thessaloniki a month before the great fire. Most surviving minarets were torn down in 1925 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Thessaloniki_Fire_of_1917 …
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For all the sweeping changes Thessaloniki went thru, much of the landscape in Pigassou's photos is recognizable through overlays of history
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If it wasn't for a blog & an FB group, we never would have known about Pigassou's photos, and the aspects they add to Thessaloniki's history
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