The exhibition was entirely funded/organized by an FB group. Austerity is hard on art https://twitter.com/asteris/status/734359750251548676 … https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldthessaloniki …
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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 …
For all the sweeping changes Thessaloniki went thru, much of the landscape in Pigassou's photos is recognizable through overlays of history
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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