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"The photo book object, 'Gülistan' by Lukas BIRK and Natasha Christia, brings us the story of Kenan & Filiz, two residents of Istanbul celebrating their lives through the cities finest establishments in the 1960s and 1970s. These establishments offered foto servisi and presented the images to their cliental in fashionable envelopes.
Content
With its landscape formatted pictures in black-and-white, 'Gülistan' offers a subtle resistance to the currently conservative forces in Turkey, illustrating a time of Westwards thinking in the capital. The collection of photo-postcards from the vivid life and happiness in the establishments gives an unique insight into the bustling world of yesterdays Istanbul and a very peculiar photographic culture very much part of every families archive." (© Fraglich Publishing 2019)