Polixeni Papapetrou
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The art of remembrance
Curator Natalie King and artist Polixeni Papapetrou enjoyed a decades-long friendship that carried them through motherhood, a passion for photography and ultimately…
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Polixeni Papapetrou | Thames & Hudson Australia & New Zealand
Polixeni Papapetrou (1960-2018) was born in Melbourne to Greek immigrants.Her childhood experience of feeling like an outsider in a then predominantly…
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Polixeni Papapetrou 1960–2018
Polixeni Papapetrou was immeasurably creative, remarkably indefatigable and unstintingly focused on her photographic practice. Poli skilfully melded her family life with her artistic output…
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Polixeni Papapetrou: MY HEART – still full of her
In 1833 the younger poet and dandy Alfred de Musset met the novelist George Sand and both fall passionately in love. On seeing Sand…
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Melancholia
In Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (1914-1916), written in collaboration with his daughter Anna Freud, he charts a correlation between these two pathological dispositions…
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Polixeni Papapetrou in Conversation With Natalie King
Polixeni Papapetrou flexes the camera’s hold on her subjects: Natalie King: Initially you trained as a lawyer and then became a practicing children…