If you’re even remotely interested in C-Town or the Jadde world generally: DO NOT MISS THIS EXHIBIT.
Güler shows up in a post of mine: Nobody really cares about Gezi Park: Greek thoughts on the protests of 2013 :
* Two more of Güler’s most famous photographs:
While there’s no documentation that the subjects of these photos are Greek, the period, the neighborhood they were taken in and — well — just their look, seem to say so. Ara Güler was a prolific photographer whose work has been sadly overexposed by excessive postcard-ization. He once famously said: “Today, 13 million people live here. We have been overrun by villagers from Anatolia who don’t understand the poetry or the romance of Istanbul. They don’t even know the great pleasures of civilization, like how to eat well. They came, and the Greeks, Armenians and Jews, who became rich here and made this city so wonderful, left for various reasons. This is how we lost what we had for 400 years.” [my emphases].
Yes, “…left for various reasons.”
He was called a racist by many leftists for that comment. But who pays them any heed? His website: Ara Güler: Official Website.
Too bad Erdoğan, who babbles on throughout the review of the exhibit, doesn’t believe anything Güler did. In fact, he’s set the final seal on the destruction of the Istanbul that Güler documented and lamented.
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