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Ara Güler
ISBN: 9789464666298
(HB - EN)
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Turkey's best-known photographer, Ara Güler (1928-2018), depicted daily life in Turkey for three-quarters of a century. Documenting traders, fishermen, children and cats, Güler captured the rough edges of Istanbul as well as all its splendour, often in black and white but also in colour. Until recently, he could still regularly be seen on the terrace of his own café Ara. Last summer a museum was opened there in memory of the photographer and his work.
Now, some four years after his death, thousands of works from the Ara Güler archive have been digitised, revealing that he was so much more than 'the eye of Istanbul'. Güler created reportage photography over the world, including in Africa and Afghanistan. He photographed celebrities such as Alfred Hitchcock, Salvador Dalí, Maria Callas and Sophia Loren. His versatility can also be seen in experimental collages from the early part of his career and in more recent work in which he plays with light and colour.
This book offers a contemporary view of his work and is the first monograph to show Güler's oeuvre in all its versatility, including in colour. It is the result of years of research by Studio Polat and Foam in Amsterdam.
With text contributions by art historian Kim Knoppers, historian of photography Özge Baykan Calafato, photographer and filmmaker Ahmet Polat and Claartje van Dijk, curator and head of exhibitions at Foam in Amsterdam.
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