It was to be expected that the importance of its subject matter for postwar Greece combined with the hitherto photographic illiteracy would throw all the weight of interest on the side of historical recording. However Voula the certainly interesting historical record. Papaioannou usually used a square format. And he used it with great mastery avoiding formalistic excesses and giving a naturalness to the very artful and staged nature of the square frame. Sometimes anxious to perfect the image she would choose subsequent divisions of her frame which almost never improved it so instinctively correct and complete was her original framing. Its main value and ability lay in something that is part of every artistic edifice.
Brought opposing emotions together by intertwining the subject with its morphological presentation and its inner content in such a way that the viewer could travel through the photograph and read it from many different angles. As in real life likewise in Papaioannous photographic world things were never unambiguous only tragic or only comical. It was a feat that in a photo background removing wartorn or impoverished Greece he managed to convey with small square images pain joy dignity hope at the same time and all this with a discreet and at the same time bold use of the photographic form. Our eye is sometimes attracted by a smile to appreciate immediately after the solid framing and sometimes by the original composition to discover very quickly that it leads to a harsh observation.
And all this with an organic naturalness that testifies to artistic honesty and respect towards what was in front of her lens. Her love for her subjects and it seems also her love for photography saved her from slippages and exaggerations which contemporaries Nellys Elli SouyoutzoglouSeraidari better known as Nellys from the artistic pseudonym she used in America was born in in Asia Minor studied photography in Germany and in opened a photography studio in Athens where she worked photographing wellknown Athenians until . Since then and until he settled in New York where he also worked as a photographer.
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