ABSTRACT
Photography offers scholars a very particular lens through which to view the world. As the volume shows, by focusing on a single place, Greece, and a specific medium, photography, it is possible to reveal cultural, historical, literary, political and imaginative issues in all their richness. Photography belongs to no single discipline, but touches on every one, including the sciences, where it is a major tool of research. In this short afterword, I briefly explore photography from my perspective as a historian with strongly interdisciplinary interests, picking up themes that are present in the preceding chapters and noting some of the complexities of the medium and hence some of the issues it raises.
