The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Acropolis
1972, printed 1975
(American, 1932-)
Image: 15.2 x 22.8 cm (6 x 9 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Gift of Russ Anderson 1992.316
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The oldest extant photograph of the Acropolis was taken in 1842.Description
Almost since its discovery in 1839, photography has been an essential part of travel. A breakthrough occurred in 1888 with the arrival of the Kodak, the first camera so simple to operate that everyone could document their own adventures. In Kenneth Josephson’s 1972 image of sailors photographing the Erechtheion, an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis in Athens, he included another option. In those days before cell phones, some tourist attractions were served by a local professional who would shoot visitors in front of the famous monument and send them the prints later.- ?-1993(Russ Anderson, Perspective Fine Art, Soquel, CA)February 17, 1993The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 205
- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
- {{cite web|title=Acropolis|url=false|author=Kenneth Josephson|year=1972, printed 1975|access-date=16 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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