#ara guler

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Road traffic on the Old Galata Bridge, Istambul

Ara Güler, 1956

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Writers Yaşar Kemal and James Baldwin in Istanbul, circa 1967, with photographer Ara Güler.

"I feel free in Turkey," Baldwin told his friend, the Kurdish writer Yaşar Kemal. He replied: "Jimmy, that's because you're an American."

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Ara Güler, Old Galata Bridge, Instanbul, 1957

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A boy with bread and milk, Istanbul, Turkey, 1989.

Photo by Ara Guler (16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018)

A Turkish Armenian photojournalist, nicknamed “the Eye of Istanbul” or “the Photographer of Istanbul”

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Old Galata Bridge, Istanbul 1957 Ara Güler

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Ara Güler

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Sophia Loren, 19th Cannes Film Festival, France, Ara Güler, 1966

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Ara Guler (born August 16, 1928 in Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish Armenian photojournalist, nicknamed “the Eye of Istanbul” or “the Photographer of Istanbul”. He began his journalistic career in 1950 on the Yeni Istanbul newspaper while still a student at the Faculty of Economics.

Guler chronicled the city with melancholic black-and-white pictures taken mostly with a Leica camera. 

Güler worked in both colour and monochrome, but the black-and-white pictures tend to have more of this melancholic quality, something the photographer recognised, once observing that “colour photographs lack the solidity of black and white