Walking in Athens

16 landscape in general, not just Athens, and he dresses it up in every possible garb – whether philosophical, intercultural, aes- thetic or national. Against this intricate, tightly-knotted can- vas, Athens emerges as I had never before seen it, through the mists of discovery. From the travellers of the eighteenth cen- tury, the nation state, the Great Idea and the convulsions be- tween the Wars, from the pioneering photographer Filippos Margaritis to Nelly’s and contemporary photographers…