Daily Bread Stories from Rural Greece, by Beatrice Hamblett
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A fine-art book of photographs and stories culled from 10 years of road trips through remote areas of Greece. Daily Bread offers a a fresh look at Greece while presenting a new kind of storytelling. The Greek story has been much in the news but Daily Bread presents a Greece instead with real people plucked from rural villages. Determined to break the stereotype of news stories publicizing only the economic crisis, photographer/storyteller Beatrice Hamblett, brings a multitude of voices to her work. The reader will meet farmers, bakers, fisherman people living simple lives in small villages held together by family and traditions. You will meet Litza, a young woman who rises at 4 a.m. daily to open her bakery in a mountain village near Albania. Elias will come to life, a handsome, rugged man living alone with his herd of 500 sheep above the meadows of Kato Pedina. The faces of Takis and Riko, a sheep farmer and his Albanian assistant, will speak of the toils of milking and tending animals, year in and year out. In both her photographs and stories, Hamblett reaches for the moments that distill the essence of character and occasion, moments that celebrate the ancient traditions, the love of family, the courage and dignity of a people as they embrace the 21st century.
Daily Bread Stories from Rural Greece, by Beatrice Hamblett- Amazon Sales Rank: #4605542 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-12
- Binding: Paperback
- 88 pages
Review Beatrice Hamblett is an old-style roving photographer perfectly willing to take the time necessary to get the shot she wants. She travels great distances, more often than not by herself, to offer the rest of us her vision of a world that has existed for centuries yet remains on the cusp of modernity. Daily Bread's cover gives only the barest hint of what is to be found inside: a realm most of us will never be fortunate (or daring) enough to explore. Leafing through Daily Bread is a delight. Flip the pages quickly to get an overview, then start again, slowly this time, to discover a brave old world of enduring values and traditions. This is a singular book, a labor of love, and Hamblett's devotion to her craft shines on every page. --Thierry Sagnier, writerIn Daily Bread, the author takes us not just on road trips but mountain trips deep into remote areas where she creates one-of-a-kind photographs that promote the wonders and beauty of Greece. She has exposed even Greeks to these areas like Epirus, a mountainous region of the northwest, that many of us do not know. The vernacular architecture, too, which she photographs was something to be forgotten. She has brought international attention to the master craftsmen who constructed the stone villages throughout Epirus and also to their unique history. We are all very grateful for her efforts. --Zoe Kosmidou, PH.D.The writer's narratives are so compelling. All the stories, both words and images, flow together beautifully. I really felt I was there on the road trips. I came away with such a wonderful feeling of people and place, an affirmation of life. --Carol Barsha, Painter
About the Author Beatrice Hamblett lives and works in Washington, DC and Skopelos, Greece. In the last 15 years, she has exhibited her photographs extensively both nationally and internationally. In July 2009, she was the recipient of a grant from Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) that helped make possible many of the photographs in Daily Bread. Her work has been featured in Athens News, Athens Voice, Washington Post, as well as in numerous other magazines, newspapers, and websites. Her photographs are included in the publication Spells for Forgetting, a collection of photographs from Leptokaria, Greece (2012), as well as in the U.S. Federal Reserve Board Art Collection. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing from Columbia University, New York, NY. All the photographs in Daily Bread were shot with a Hasselblad medium-format film camera and developed and printed by the artist.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Behind Daily Bread By David L. Delmonte Having lived with Ms. Hamblett a long time, I know what went into making this book. At least 10 years of slogging expeditions through the mountainous region of north western Greece, often by foot and carrying dozens of pounds of gear. In her earlier work, Beatrice walked and motorcycled the islands and mainland, fascinated by the old, rustic architecture.Later she became curious about the people who made those farm shed/houses. She developed rapport with some pretty earthy farm people, and knows the story of each one. Incidentally, with a masters in writing from Columbia/NY, she kept diaries of her encounters and impressions. I found these stories fascinating (although her travels drive me nuts).I urged her to publish some, and a few stories made it into this book. Despite my own fears, I hope Bea continues to see and show what the rest of us should learn to understand. I seem to walk through life in my own head. Bea shows me things around me that I would never have seen otherwise. If you look at each photograph for a while, thinking of these images and thinking about the media version of events in that country, I hope the book makes you question what you read.As their crisis unfolds, many people are moving back to the countryside to pick up and learn how to fend for themselves, growing their own food, rebuilding old communities and villages. The people have a sense of civilization that we could use to learn. The music and dancing has no age boundaries -- you will always see grandparents and toddlers and everyone in between at these events. Everyone knows the words to the songs. Everyone dances. These people might not have the latest technology, but they can certainly teach us something about the way to live.When safely home at our house on Skopelos, or in Washington DC, Bea develops and prints her photographs. Over the past 30+ years, she has become a master printer, and all the works you will see in the book, are hand made. I think the only digital devices used in her process are -- well actually, I can't think of any. She does listen to music on her iPhone or little iPod and we interact through FaceTime. Everything else, from film loading to developing, to printing to mounting and framing, she performs herself by hand. She is a medium format photographer, which means her gear is heavy. She insists on backpacking, trekking and shooting, carrying this stuff, all by herself. This is true despite being integrated into the european photo scene.I think Bea captures images of people living a different kind of life. Please support her efforts, and in return, be ready to learn and enjoy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. THE COMMONPLACE MADE WONDERFUL By Amazon Customer The photos in this book achieve the remarkable feat of clearly being rooted in our own age, while at the same time opening a door into an ancient past. I don't know how she does, but Beatrice Hamblett makes gives her surfaces a dimensionality that captures a way of life that has existed for millenia and still remains vitally alive to this moment. I guess you could say that she has captured with her lens both space and time---and that makes the images resonate with meaning beyond the objects and people shown.And if that weren't enough, Hamblett writes with with clarity and wit. All in all, the book is a marvel. You may not know it yet, but you need to see this book---in the fullest sense of the word "see."
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. the lives of these people and their unique culture through a beautiful and positive perspective By Amazon Customer To see Greece through the eyes of this author, has been a real treat for me ... for she shares with us Greece, the lives of these people and their unique culture through a beautiful and positive perspective. As I turned each page I was drawn deeper into this amazing world and with each page I became more spellbound... as I stepped into the warm light of Greece. This book is truly eye candy for the soul. A MUST READ!
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