[ΚΟΡΠΟΥΣ, ΧΧΙ-ΧΧΙΙ] - Fotis Ifantidis

[ΚΟΡΠΟΥΣ, ΧΧΙ-ΧΧΙΙ] is a photo-essay experimenting on the series of the Catalogues of Sculpture of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. In this photographic process both the printed and the digital form of the academic corpora as well as the visualization of the sculptures themselves (the outcome of a specific academic photographic gaze) are understood as materialities, parallel archeological objects. Their photographic re-negotiation comments on the limits of printed and digital materiality, as well as the practice of archaeological accumulation and classification, aiming to the creation of new, black-and-white, textures resulting from the two-dimensional, pseudo-three-dimensional or intensely digitally altered re-photographed bodies.  

Fotis Ifantidis is archaeologist / museologist and post-doctoral research at the Department of Cultural Technology & Communication of the University of the Aegean. His academic research is focused on personal adornment practices in prehistory, and on the interplay between photography and archaeology, with case studies on the Neolithic settlements of Dispilio and Koutroulou, the Sanctuary of Poseidon in Kalaureia on the island of Poros, and the Athenian Acropolis. Among his publications are Spondylus in Prehistory (2011, in collaboration with M. Nikolaidou), Archaeographies: Excavating Neolithic Dispilio (2013), Camera Kalaureia: An Archaeological Photo-Ethnography (2016, in collaboration with Y. Hamilakis) and Practices of Personal Adornment in Neolithic Greece (2019). 

[ΚΟΡΠΟΥΣ, ΧΧΙ-ΧΧΙΙ] is available in two different mediums:  

• in digital form, freely accessible through the Museolab website

• in printed form, each copy being individually reprocessed