GREEK GIRL IN TRADITIONAL DRESS, SEATED, HUGGING KNEES, CIRCA 1970

CONSTANTINE MANOS WAS PHOTOGRAPHING FOR HIS LOCAL NEWSPAPERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN. BETWEEN 1956 AND 1958 HE WAS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER FOR STARS AND STRIPES WHILE SERVING IN THE US ARMY IN EUROPE. HE HAS PHOTOGRAPHED EXTENSIVELY IN GREECE AND HAS HAD EXHIBITIONS AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, THE BIBLIOTHèQUE NATIONALE IN PARIS AND IN NEW YORK, LONDON, MILAN, BOSTON AND TOULOUSE. IN 1984 HE BEGAN A MAJOR COLOUR PROJECT ON AMERICAN CULTURE.