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Crete in the 1950s: Amazing Photos by a Traveling French Photographer

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Crete in the 1950s: Amazing Photos by a Traveling French Photographer

This collection of striking black and white photographs of the Greek island of Crete was taken in the 1950s by French photographer Claude Dervenn.

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Agia Triada Monastery in Hania.
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A festival in the village of Agios Giorgos.
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Agios Nikolaos Lake.
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St. Nicholas Church in Splantzia, Hania.
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Agios Nikolaos.
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The market of Iraklion.
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Village of Amari in Rethymnon.
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Arkadi Monastery in Rethymnon.
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A Cretan man.
A Cretan man.
Men of Crete.
Giouchtas in Iraklion.
A man in Hania.
Iraklion Harbor.
A café in Iraklion.
Climbing on Mt. Psiloritis.
Roaming the streets of Rethymnon.
Village of Hora Sfakion.
Monastery of Toplou.
Village of Valsamonero.

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