
The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor: Artist and Lover
The book, edited by Olivia Stewart and Ian Collins, is linked to a major exhibition of Joan Leigh Fermor’s photographs, at the Benaki Museum in Athens until 21 October. Elusive, enigmatic and beautiful, Joan Leigh Fermor (1912-2003) was a close friend of John Craxton and also one of the finest photographers of her time. Although hailed and hired by John Betjeman and Cyril Connolly from the 1930s, and a remarkable recorder of the London Blitz, she most excelled in pictures of unspoilt Greece taken between 1945