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Maybe this deviation will bring him a lot in the future. On the contrary the small book with the CD which understandably went rather unnoticed contained some very remarkable photographs by Economopoulos with subjects unusual for the context of his overall work handled with simplicity and sensitivity. Maybe this deviation will bring him a lot in the future. Finally I feel the need to comment on the publishing and typographical quality of Oikonomopouloss books which without being condemned falls short of the quality of his photographs and does not enhance them. Im also not sure if the excessive and unwarranted grain of his photos especially evident in the Miners is due to the photos alone or to their reproductions.

But above all I wish to declare categorically against a practice that not only Economopoulos but also many Magnum photographers and others with similar themes and aesthetics use. I am referring to the habit of their photos occupying the surface of one and a half pages so that the enlargement of the photo takes on the maximum possible dimensions in the development of the photo background removing editorial living room. I suppose that in this way they want to give intensity to the photograph while all that is achieved is the breakdown of its unity. At the very short distances required for reading a book the eye captures the singlepage photograph better and appreciates its composition more correctly. In addition to the others the tone of the seriousness of the photographic work and the photographic book is also given keeping a distance from the journalistic setting of newspapers and magazines.



The presence of Oikonomopoulos in the field of Greek photography is a great gain. And I believe that after his professional acclaim and international recognition exploration of his potential. I must also congratulate ΄Indiktos publications and their initiator Kostas Ordolis who support with their work what few have realized that photographic artistic history is written through books. Fairy tales are composed of strange materials. Allegories symbolism allusions abstractions transcendences and elliptical shapes woven into a canvas of magic. Fairy tales are built from a veneer of lies that hides and reveals a substratum of truth.