Ara Güler Müzesi | |
  Location within Istanbul | |
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| Established | 16 August 2018 (2018-08-16) |
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| Location | Şişli, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Coordinates | 41°03′29″N 28°58′51″E / 41.05819°N 28.98075°E / 41.05819; 28.98075 |
| Type | Photography museum |
Ara Güler Museum (Turkish: Ara Güler Müzesi) is a photography museum in Istanbul, Turkey, exhibiting photographs taken by the photojournalist Ara Güler. Established in 2018, the museum also houses an archive of his work.
Background and description
[edit]Ara Güler (16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) was a noted Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".[1]
The foundation of the Ara Güler Museum goes back to the collaboration of Doğuş Group with Güler in 2016.[2] It opened on 16 August 2018, on Güler's 90th birthday.[3] The opening exhibition was titled "The Whistling Man" ("Islık Çalan Adam").[2]
Description
[edit]The Ara Güler Museum is located at Bomontiada in the Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey.[2] Güler's photographs focus on humans, Istanbul, and Turkey in the second half of the 20th century, which shaped the individual and social memory of this location.[2]
The museum houses also an archive and research center ("Ara Güler Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi", AGAVAM). An archive team led by an art consultant at Doğuş Group carried out a two-year project on the classification, inventory, preservation, digitization and indexing of hundreds of thousands of Güler's works. The archive collections are available to photography enthusiasts and researchers through a portal.[2]
Admission to the museum is free of charge.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "In pictures: 'Eye of Istanbul' photographer Ara Guler dies at 90". BBC. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Ara Güler Müzesi Açıldı" (in Turkish). Mimarizm. 17 August 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2022. |
- ↑ "Ara Güler Müzesi açıldı!" (in Turkish). pab. Retrieved 28 November 2022.