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"Introduced with a text by Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize winner 2006), this book of photographs shows the Turkish metropolis from the 1940s to the 1980s in vivid and yearning images. This is where Orient and Occident meet, where past and present interweave. The two great sons of this city describe with great mastery the magic and fascination of their hometown.
Content
In the black-and-white photo volume 'Istanbul' - in German language! - , the viewer experiences the melancholy of this unique city, which oscillates between tradition and modernity, through the incorruptible gaze of award-winning Magnum photographer Ara GÜLER, the 'Eye of Istanbul'." (free translated, © DuMont Verlag, 2010)