ABSTRACT
Writing on nineteenth-century photography of Greece in 1990 the American diplomat and photography collector Gary Edwards mentioned that
early photographers [documenting the country] followed what might be called a standard iconographic programme in selecting sights at which they pointed their cameras, an iconographic tradition that not only predated photography […] but continued for about 25 years following Joly de Lotbinière’s 1839 views (Edwards 1990: 171).
