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Sophia Journal

Theoretical Papers

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage

Unclaiming the natural waterfront landscape: Thessaloniki’s manmade east waterfront

  • Sotiria Alexiadou
  • Vassilis Colonas
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-8976_2023-0008_0001_9

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Abstract

This article focuses on the transition of the natural landscape of Thessaloniki’s east waterfront to the artificial urban landscape that draws a straight line between water and land, while noting the developing rigid homogeneous multistorey buildings as a background image of the city in contrast to the former porosity and architectural variety of the late 19th-early 20th century mansions. The transition is captured either as a commentary on the new landscape or as a memoir of a lost era by cinematographers, such as Takis Kanellopoulos in his film “Parenthesis” (1968) and Theo Angelopoulos in his film “Eternity and a Day” (1998) and photographers of the 1960’s such as Socratis Iordanidis and Yiannis Stylianou.

Cover image: Theo Angelopoulos, Populated manmade waterfront, Film still, Eternity and a Day, Thessaloniki, 1998

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