Camera Ottomana : photography and modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914 / edited by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem ; translation, Hande Eagle ; photographs by Murat Akar, Hadiye Cangökçe ; book design Işıl Ünal, Oya Çiftçi.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Turkish Publisher: Istanbul : Koç University Press, 2019Manufacturer: İstanbul : Ofset Yapımevi. Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Second edition: İstanbul, July 2019Description: 255 pages : photographs, facesimiles ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9786055250461 (paperback)Uniform titles: Camera Ottomana, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda fotoğraf ve modernite, 1840-1914. English Subject(s): Photography -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century | Photography -- Social aspects -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century | Photography in historiography | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Pictorial works | İstanbul (Turkey) -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works | Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social life and customsLOC classification: TR113.5 .C36 2019Subject: From its birth in 1839, photography has participated in modernity as much as it has symbolized it. Its capacity to record and display and its claim to accuracy and truth intricately linked the new technology to the dynamism of the modern world. The Ottoman Empire embraced photography with great enthusiasm. In fact, the impact and meaning of photography were compounded with the thrust of modernization and westernization of the Tanzimat movement. By the turn of the century, photography in the Ottoman lands had become a standard feature of everyday life, of public media, and of the state apparatus. This volume explores some of the most striking aspects of the close connection between photography and modernity with a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire. Much of the material concerns the display of modernity through photography, as was so often the case in the photographs and albums commissioned by the Sultan to showcase his empire for Western audiences. Nevertheless, modernity was often embedded in the photographic act, transforming it into a common and mundane practice. Be it in the form of images disseminated through the illustrated press, postcards sent out to family members or anonymous collectors, portraits presented to friends and acquaintances, or pictures taken of employees and convicts, photography had started to invade practically every sphere of public and private life. The visual world we live in today was born some 150 years ago. Edited by professors Zeynep Celik and Edhem Eldem, Camera Ottomana is both a homage to, and a critical assessment of, the local dimension of one of the most potent and transformative technological inventions of the recent past. 215 photographs and illustrations. https://www.abebooks.com/9786055250461/camera-ottomana-photography-modernity-ottoman-6055250462/plp
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"This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Camera Ottomana: Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914', at Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, April 21-August 19th, 2015"-- Page 3.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-251) and index (pages 252-255).
From its birth in 1839, photography has participated in modernity as much as it has symbolized it. Its capacity to record and display and its claim to accuracy and truth intricately linked the new technology to the dynamism of the modern world. The Ottoman Empire embraced photography with great enthusiasm. In fact, the impact and meaning of photography were compounded with the thrust of modernization and westernization of the Tanzimat movement. By the turn of the century, photography in the Ottoman lands had become a standard feature of everyday life, of public media, and of the state apparatus. This volume explores some of the most striking aspects of the close connection between photography and modernity with a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire. Much of the material concerns the display of modernity through photography, as was so often the case in the photographs and albums commissioned by the Sultan to showcase his empire for Western audiences. Nevertheless, modernity was often embedded in the photographic act, transforming it into a common and mundane practice. Be it in the form of images disseminated through the illustrated press, postcards sent out to family members or anonymous collectors, portraits presented to friends and acquaintances, or pictures taken of employees and convicts, photography had started to invade practically every sphere of public and private life. The visual world we live in today was born some 150 years ago. Edited by professors Zeynep Celik and Edhem Eldem, Camera Ottomana is both a homage to, and a critical assessment of, the local dimension of one of the most potent and transformative technological inventions of the recent past. 215 photographs and illustrations.
https://www.abebooks.com/9786055250461/camera-ottomana-photography-modernity-ottoman-6055250462/plp
Translation of: Camera Ottomana, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda fotoğraf ve modernite, 1840-1914.