by Orhan Pamuk (Author), Ara Güler's Istanbul (Author)
This book is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s. Captured through the unerring lens of the award winning Ara Guler, the `Eye of Istanbul', it reflects the city's melancholy aesthetic as it oscillates between tradition and modernity. Guler's remarkable duotone photographs are accompanied by evocative commentaries from Orhan Pamuk, another leading figure in Turkish culture. Both writer and photographer each held in their youth the ambition of becoming a painter. Here, each in his own way paints a brushless picture of his hometown and captures, through image and word, its very soul.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Edition: 1
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 12 Oct 2009
ISBN 10: 0500543860
ISBN 13: 9780500543863
Book Overview: A portrait in photographs and texts of Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s, captured by two greats of contemporary Turkish culture