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- [1933] (Creation)
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17 x 23.5 cm
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Apostolos Ververis (Izmir, Turkey 1900 – Athens, Greece 1980) was first trained in photography at his birthplace, which he abandoned in 1922. He settled in Alexandria (Egypt), opening his own studio in 1927. He opened another studio in Athens in 1936, which closed just before the war. He then returned to Egypt. He worked as a war photographer in the Middle East and moved back to Greece in 1944. He took pictures of the ravages of war caused by the Germans in Greece as well as of the Greek civil war and of the political prisons on Makronisos (Greece), following an assignment by the Ministry of Military Affairs. He settled in Athens in 1948 and closed his photographic studio in Alexandria in 1952.
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Photograph of the room in the Greek Hospital of Alexandria where Cavafy died. Some of his personal items can be seen, such as his hat and the notepad with the pencil. Three copies. On the verso of one of them, the rubber stamp "Cavafy Archive phot. 8". All copies bear the embossed stamp of the photographer, Apostolos Ververis (Ververis Alexandrie).
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French
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Ververis, Apostolos. “Photograph”. Photograph, [1933]. GR-OF CA SING-S01-F04-0002 (2046), Onassis Foundation Alekos & Rica Singopoulo Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/SING-S01-F04-0002.
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- Ververis, Apostolos (Authority)
- Greek Hospital (Alexandria) (Subject)