Call Number:

C0782

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); George Seferis Photographs of Cyprus, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1953-1955 (bulk) and 1953-1971 (inclusive)

Creator:

Seferis, George, 1900-1971.

Form:

photographs -- 20th century

Abstract:

Consists of 138 photographs of Cyprus taken by Greek poet and Nobel Prize winner George Seferis.

George Seferis was a Greek poet and the 1963 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The collection consists of 138 photographs of Cyprus taken by Seferis. There are 122 (5" x 7") photographs, 1953-1955, of Byzantine and medieval monuments and artworks, and various other buildings, scenes, and people of Cyprus. This group of photographs is entitled, "Cyprus, Memory and Love, Through the Lens of Seferis." A selection of these photographs were published in Kypros: Mneme kai Agape, me to Phako tou Giorgou Sephere (1990). Also present are 19 (9" x 12") prints, 1954-1971, of various scenes in Cyprus, portraits of Seferis, and of the Nobel Prize award ceremony.