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The beautiful work of Ara Guler

Truly excellent photography.
 
They either may attract as they remind us of our own youth, or as the just do the opposite, showing us an alien world.
 
Alan Edward Klein said:
Nice stuff. Why do street shot always look better from a foreign country and in the distant past?
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It's a human condition. When we see something every day it becomes mundane. It's like those people that live in Hawaii with their bumper stickers that say "Ho hum, another boring day in paradise".

The art of life is to see with fresh eyes in our daily existence.
 
Truly wonderful photographs! Makes one want to get up and go visit Istanbul again.
 
I would like to reactivate this thread in order to dedicate it to Ara Güler, a great photographer who I just discovered.

I have bought his book about Istanbul (with a foreword by Orhan Pamuk) and am currently reading a few interviews, articles etc. I am touched by his approach, as well as by his life story. It has helped me to better define who I want to be as a photographer.

I am collecting data and will try to write up a summary of his approach and philosophy.
 
I accidently created a new thread about Ara Güler, having forgotten that I already created this one.

I wanted to revive it to draw some attention to this somewhat forgotten artist.
 
Thanks for clarifying- I did not want to claim authorship of this thread, so good to have that sorted out.
 

Turkey old photos

Ara Güler'in resmi web sitesi.
araguler.net
The eye of Istanbul as he's been called.
He has a good thing in his photography, which I always appreciate. You can easily choose the photos that stand out. Not something you can say for the majority of photographers. Naturally, most of his photos are uninteresting but every once in a while pops some photo and you say "wow that's good".
 
nikos79 said:
Naturally, most of his photos are uninteresting
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Since I find most of them interesting, I'll ask:

Why "naturally"?

And what is it you find uninteresting about those you find uninteresting?
 
Alex Benjamin said:
Since I find most of them interesting, I'll ask:

Why "naturally"?

And what is it you find uninteresting about those you find uninteresting?
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I said naturally because I think every good photographer has some boring, good, very good, excellent, and mastepiece photos. Since I believe a photograph is very difficult I don't expect that some photographer in his (non-curated) body of work will have most of the photos to be great. That's not a critique I think is something normal, someone can't produce masterpieces every day he goes out photographing.
If you want in the next post I will point to you the one photos that in my opinion are good from a first look on his webpage
 
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