Ara Güler (1928) is Turkey's perhaps most famous photographer. Nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul". I love his photographs. They beautifully capture the magnificent atmosphere of Istanbul as I got to know it in the 1980ies. Usually b/w, you feel the decay, the pollution, the beauty, the peoples (Ara is of Armenian descent himself) , the grand architecture. People are never absent from his photographs. Always alive.
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