Ara Guler, masterful photographer of Istanbul. from www.lesartsturcs.com
"...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. 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....I have tried to gather the truths of a life which is either over or dying anyway.
"
No comments:
Post a Comment