In
the summer of 1955, Robert McCabe, a young American in his early 20s,
was given a simple assignment by Professor Alan John Bayard Wace: to
create a visual record of Mycenae with his Rolleiflex camera and Plus-X
film.
Wace had led British excavations at Mycenae since he was
personally granted permission to do so in 1920, as Director of the
British School at Athens.
McCabe took some 200
photographs that year, a small number perhaps by modern digital
standards but a sizeable and comprehensive record nonetheless. This
exhibition features around fifty of those photographs, capturing a black
and white archive of the site and its place in the broader landscape – a
landscape peopled in McCabe's photographs by both archaeologists and
locals alike, whose interactions and stories are remembered in the
captions.
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