35 Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Athens during the 1960s

Vintage Athens– the city that is now, only available in memories and images. So much has changed in the Greek capital since these images were taken. The people dress differently, the neighborhoods have changed and cars are smaller now.

Check out these cool images from Athens in the 1960 by Nicholas Econopouly.

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Fascinating Vintage Color Photographs Capture Street Scenes of Athens in 1966

Athens of the 1960s is a city in transition. Change is happening at an unprecedented pace in keeping with the exponential growth rate of the country.

From 1955 to 1965, Athens has revamped a large percentage of its infrastructure, admitted thousands of internal migrants and sprawled to previously unbuilt areas of Attica. Mass construction creates and maintains jobs, provides housing for the new populations and alters the historic traits of the capital, but at the same time it contributes to the modernization of everyday life and the consolidation of Athens as a metropolis.

Here are 38 fascinating vintage color photographs capture street scenes of Athens in 1966:

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Interesting Color Photographs of Greece in the early 1960s

Dmitri Kessel (1902 - 1995) was born in the Russian Ukraine and immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. During a 60-year career, Mr. Kessel worked as an industrial photographer, a war correspondent and combat photographer, and a photo essayist for LIFE magazine. During World War II, he sailed on convoy escorts in the North Atlantic, covered the landing of American troops in the Aleutian Islands and the British landing in Greece.

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Pictures of Acropolis of Athens, Greece in 1961

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27 Black and White Photos of Greek Civil War in the 1940s

The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946-49 between the Greek government army—backed by the United Kingdom and the United States—and the Democratic Army of Greece, the military branch of the Greek Communist Party, backed by the USSR, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania.

It was the result of a highly polarized struggle between leftists and rightists that started in 1943 and targeted the power vacuum that the German-Italian occupation during World War II had created. One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, according to some analysts it represents the first example of postwar North European and North American involvement in the internal politics of a foreign country.

Steel-helmeted Elas troops use a corner building as a shelter as they fire at police headquarters during a civil uprising in Athens. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1944

Greek government commandos near Karpenisi, equipped with British berets and American fur-trimmed jackets. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images). 22nd May 1948

A sentry on guard on Mount Likebetos, overlooking the city of Athens. Military forces were employed to guard the city against possible attacks from communist paratrooper guerrillas. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone/Getty Images). 1947

Refugee children in a filthy cellar at Piraeus during the Greek Civil War. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images). 1st November 1947

Greek National Guards bring prisoners from guerilla-occupied territory to Drama in northern Greece. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images). 22nd May 1948

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Rare and Wonderful Color Portraits of Greeks in the 1920s

Maynard Owen Williams was a National Geographic correspondent from 1919. He was an inveterate traveller who began traveling in his teens, explored Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution, among other adventures.

Williams was the Geographic’s first foreign correspondent, and his reports include a description of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923.

Maynard Williams was also an excellent photographer, and pioneered travel photography. The Maynard Owen Williams Prize for creative nonfiction at Kalamazoo College is named in his memory.

Enjoy these beautiful, rare images of Greece in color, captured from the camera of Maynard Owen Williams in the 1920s.

A man in national costume smokes a waterpipe, Crete.

A maid of Candia poses in costume.

A woman poses in the national costume of Crete.

A woman works outside her home in Crete.

A woman poses in the national costume of Crete.

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Two Actresses at Delphi Festival Adorn Costumes of Classical Greece, 1930

Two actresses at Delphi Festival adorn costumes of classical Greece, December 1930.

Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic.

Stunning Color Photos Capture Everyday Life in Istanbul in 1965

These stunning snapshots show what the beautiful city of Instanbul, Turkey looked like in the mid-1960s.

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Brilliant Black and White Photos of a Simple and Quiet Greece From the Early 20th Century

Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas is the first foreign photographer who traveled so much in the Greek area, in 1903, for about three decades later.

Traveled from the Peloponnese to Crete and Olympus and from Ithaca to Mount Athos. He toured, photographed, wrote. His work, innovative and decisive for the evolution of Greek photography in the 20th century. Through photos and albums presents a panorama of Greece in the interwar period, contributing to the formation of European public opinion to Greece the same period.

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The First Color Photographs of Greece, 1913

Nowadays we are used to digital photography and have totally forgotten that color photography is something relatively new.

According to Wikipedia, color photography is photography that uses media capable of reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white (monochrome) photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray. In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record color information at the time of exposure. This is usually done by analyzing the spectrum of colors into three channels of information, one dominated by red, another by green and the third by blue, in imitation of the way the normal human eye senses color.

We first saw the color photographs around 1907 with the Autochrome plate is introduced and becomes the first commercially successful color photography product. Below you can see the first color photographs taken in Greece in 1913.