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Your initial two-week trip to Greece unexpectedly turned into a
whole summer adventure. What compelling factors influenced you
and your brother to alter your travel plans so drastically?
It was the stunning landscape and the sea, combined with the extraor-
dinary hospitality of our new friends.
During your early visits, Greece was still recovering from the effects
of WWII and civil conflict. How did these circumstances influence
the subjects you chose to photograph?
At the time, I wasn’t consciously influenced by these circumstances.
However, when we started working with Dr Panagiotis Roilos, George
Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Liter-
ature at Harvard University and Mrs. Lymperopoulou on the theme
of Greece after the war, we quickly understood which photos best
illustrated that difficult period. >

A TASTE OF TRADITION
An itinerant salep vendor, offering warm and comforting salep to passersby,
a beloved scene on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.

LYNDON JOHNSON’S DONKEY
At the American Farm School in Thessaloniki a donkey
owned by Lyndon Johnson poses in the middle of a
tree-lined road. The donkey, symbol of the American
Democrat Party, was a gift from the School to the then ©ROBERT MCCABE
Vice President but the Secret Service was said to have ©ROBERT MCCABE GRACEFUL HERITAGE
been reluctant to bring him to the U.S. At sunset, guards of the Acropolis gather under the Porch of Caryatids just before closing time.

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