Whether due to deterioration or to restoration and modernization for tourism, most of these places don’t look the same today. Shot at locations across Anatolia, the photographs mainly portray medieval Seljuk and Armenian monuments, along with a few other sites including the stunning Ishak Pasa Palace in Dogubayazit, built by the Ottomans in the 18th century. Hare had a keen interest in Middle Eastern architecture, and the photos were a gift from colleagues when he left Turkey. The works in “In Focus” - never previously shown - come from a set of 53 photographs donated to the museum in 1989 by Raymond Hare, U.S.
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The Istanbul native, whose photographic archive includes some 800,000 images, got his start in the 1950s as a photojournalist for Hayat (the Turkish “Life” magazine) and went on to a distinguished career that included working at Magnum Photos with luminaries including Henri Cartier-Bresson and publishing his work around the world.
Sackler Gallery.Ī legend, Güler, 85, is called the “Eye of Istanbul” for his 1950s and ’60s photos of street scenes that are among the most iconic representations of the city. This and 20 other black-and-white photographs of lesser-known sites in Turkey - the work of the country’s foremost living photographer - are on display in the intimate exhibit “In Focus: Ara Güler’s Anatolia,” at the Arthur M. The photo, taken in the mid-1960s, captures a time long before a restoration that filled in gaps with unsightly, gleaming new masonry. Though it served for a time as the Seljuk capital, Sivas today is a provincial city that’s too far off the beaten path to attract most foreign visitors - or even most Turks. The location of the impressive Gok Medrese - a madrassa, or Islamic theological school, built in 1271 - is Sivas, in the central part of the country. This is a Turkey that most people will never encounter. Inside the archway, a wooden door sits ajar, while a small child, barefoot and unkempt, passes by in the foreground. Below them is an elaborate stone portal with a pointed arch, intricately carved with Islamic calligraphy and arabesque patterns in the style of the Seljuks, a dynasty that ruled much of what is now Turkey during the 12th and 13th centuries.
Two cone-topped minarets pierce the sky, silhouetted against a striking backdrop of clouds.
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