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Ara Güler's photographs have carried viewers back in time through
an Istanbul which has been changing with unprecedented speed. What
poignant scenes Güler has captured: Rowing boats in Eminönü, a
fisherman spreading  |
his nets to dry in Büyükdere, friends parting on Galata quay or
chatting in a café in Beyoglu. From the streets of Tarlabasi to an
old cobbled hill in Kandilli, these photos record the people and
places of Istanbul. |
Stressing that photography is a spell which captures a moment in
time for future generations, Ara Güler explains his love of Istanbul
and the albums's objective in his "Postword," replacing the usual
foreword: |
 Times have changed, life has changed... It was going to
change, it had to change, and so it did... Because they never knew
the former city and cannot imagine it, the new generation today
thinks that this is Istanbul, that Istanbul was always like this.
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When they look at an old photograph,
they are astounded. Where is that? they ask, because hardly
anywhere still looks the same, if it still exists at all. [These
photographs] are impressions left on my, of a world, lost or gone,
in which I lived.
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Since Istanbul is the subject, I have
include_onced reportage photographs of a documentary character as well as
photographs which have been exhibited I have tried to gather the
truths of a life which is either over of dying anyway.  |
Most of these photographs are in museums and libraries abroad.
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