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The World as Seen Through Yorgos Lanthimos’ Lens

An exhibition at Onassis Stegi in Athens showcases a body of photographic work that is as quietly unsettling as anything the filmmaker has put on screen.

Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos did not win an Oscar for his latest sci-fi piece, Bugonia, but still photos from the set found their way into his new show at Onassis Stegi in Athens, “Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs,” on through May 17. It features 110 new images, as well as three bodies of work linked to his films, making it the largest exhibition of the A-list director’s photographs ever presented in an institutional context. Designed in the form of a classical Greek temple, a central altar-like space displays the bulk of the show, mostly black-and-white images, with film-related pieces occupying the outer perimeter.

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As a student at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos in Athens, Lanthimos was inspired by the work of Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and Joel-Peter Witkin. Taking pictures on his film sets for publicity purposes eventually became taking photos for their own sake, which he developed in a makeshift darkroom in his........

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