Shoes for Elefteria
Photograph
Shoes for Elefteria
From Oxia - Greek One-Child Village
ca. 1945
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24.8 x 20.2 cm (9 3/4 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2005
Inscriptions verso (typed label):
Shoes for Elefteria. Pix by David Seymour "Magnum"
Four year old Elefteria Tranopoulous the only child left in the Greek Village of Oxia - is presented with a pair of shoes by the United Nations Inter. Children's Emergency Fund
Oxia - Greek One-Child Village. [underlined] Elefteria's only playmate is this dog. Dressed in ragged clothes and with her hair cut short she happily paddles the dog sitting on a hay stag [sic] in the middle of the deserted houses, none of which has been destroyed, but some of which are falling down from neglect. The walls still bear bulgarian [sic] and greek [sic] communist inscriptions.
File Greece/Child & Youth
verso (stamp): Property of the Periodicals Art Library, 186 High Holborn, W.C.1. Must be returned undamaged [underlined]
verso (stamp): Photo by David Seymour-Magnum / Magnum Photos / 125, Faubourg St-Honoré, 125 / ELYsées 51-28 Paris-8
verso (stamp): See 4 Feb 1950 Illustrated
verso (stamp): 76143
verso (pencil): 452
verso (pencil): 3000 DS DS-32
Shoes for Elefteria. Pix by David Seymour "Magnum"
Four year old Elefteria Tranopoulous the only child left in the Greek Village of Oxia - is presented with a pair of shoes by the United Nations Inter. Children's Emergency Fund
Oxia - Greek One-Child Village. [underlined] Elefteria's only playmate is this dog. Dressed in ragged clothes and with her hair cut short she happily paddles the dog sitting on a hay stag [sic] in the middle of the deserted houses, none of which has been destroyed, but some of which are falling down from neglect. The walls still bear bulgarian [sic] and greek [sic] communist inscriptions.
File Greece/Child & Youth
verso (stamp): Property of the Periodicals Art Library, 186 High Holborn, W.C.1. Must be returned undamaged [underlined]
verso (stamp): Photo by David Seymour-Magnum / Magnum Photos / 125, Faubourg St-Honoré, 125 / ELYsées 51-28 Paris-8
verso (stamp): See 4 Feb 1950 Illustrated
verso (stamp): 76143
verso (pencil): 452
verso (pencil): 3000 DS DS-32
