The beautiful work of Ara Guler

[ooze]

Maybe being based in Turkey at that time, that is all he could get?

He was a journalist for Time-Life, Stern, Paris Match...and he was all over the world. He most certainly would not be limited to what was locally available.

 

[Ian Grant]

Maybe being based in Turkey at that time, that is all he could get?

It's possible, but it seems likely he preferred Ilford B&W films, it's unlikely the importer in Istanbul would run out of stock.

He was a journalist for Time-Life, Stern, Paris Match...and he was all over the world. He most certainly would not be limited to what was locally available.

I think he largely travelled on assignment where his Turkish nationality would be better accepted than a European or American photojournalist, and in particular Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, & Pakistan. He also worked in Borneo, India, Kenya, and New Guinea.

He obviously travelled far wider than that, in later years when shooting portraits.

Ok so he used what was available at the time then.

Perhaps what was available in a country like Kazakhstan if he heeded more film, that would be Orwo and Adox, which were better than Russian films.

But there are other things to bear in mind, HP3 was released in 1941, but the film had been significantly improved in small steps by the time it was replaced by HP4 in 1965/6. Perhaps we are overlooking the availability of the papers he was printing on, which would have been graded. Sometimes you would run out of the optimal grade, and had to compromise.

Ian

 

[RezaLoghme]

Are we really discussion the choice of film of one of the most legendary photographers?