The Permanent Delegation of Greece to UNESCO is hosting an exhibition of the known photographer Robert McCabe entitled “Greece, Pathways to an Enchanted Land“, which opened to the public from Wednesday, 5 October 2016 – 5:00pm until Friday, 7 October 2016 – 10:00am (UNESCO Headquarters, 7, place de Fontenoy, Paris, France).
Robert McCabe was born in Chicago in 1934 and grew up in the New York City area. His first photographs of Europe were the result of a trip in 1954 to France, Italy, and Greece while he was an undergraduate at Princeton. He returned to Greece in 1955 and 1957 via freighter from the U.S. and traveled extensively in the Aegean, shooting with a Rolleiflex and Plus-X film. In 1957 he took a series of color photographs in the Greek Islands at the request of the National Geographic Society. His black and white photos were first exhibited in 1954 and 1955 at Firestone Library at Princeton, and in a traveling exhibition, which ensued. In 1967 a selection of photographs was exhibited at the Olympic Gallery (now Olympic Tower) in New York under the auspices of Spyros Skouras. The publication of his first book Metamorphosis was in 1979.
In October 2012 McCabe released China-Greece: Ancient People, Changing Worlds in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name which ran from October 2012 through September 2013 at the Museum of Asian Art on the island of Corfu, Greece. The book presents 130 color photographs of these two countries illustrating the rapid changes that have, and are taking place in each. In July 2013 Patmos: Pathways of Mystery, was published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at The Old School in Chora, Patmos. The book included 25 photographs selected from the show’s images in an attempt to show a slowly vanishing Patmos. McCabe’s most recent book, Mycenae 1954: High Noon was released in November 2014.
