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    ARA GULER'S EXHIBITION TO LAUNCH IN YEREVAN

    12:18, 31 May, 2013

    YEREVAN, MAY 31, ARMENPRESS. Prominent Armenian photographer from
    Constantinople Ara Guler will introduce his exhibition in Yerevan. The
    exhibition held under the slogan "Hello" will launch in the National
    Gallery of Armenia. As reports "Armenpress" the exhibition will kick
    off at 15.00 on June 4. The exhibition will be open for the Armenian
    public for three months.

    The renowned photographer has already arrived in Yerevan.

    Ara Guler was born August 16, 1928 in Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey.He
    is an Armenian photojournalist from Constantinople, nicknamed "the
    Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He is considered
    one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers.

    He studied at the local Getronagan Armenian High School. Owner of a
    pharmacy on Istiklal Avenue, his father had a wide circle of friends
    from the art world of the period. Ara Guler's early contact with this
    world inspired him to embark on a career in cinema.

    During his high school years, he jobbed in movie studios and attended
    drama courses held by Muhsin Ertugrul, the founder of modern Turkish
    theater. However, he abandoned cinema in favor of journalism, joining
    the staff of the newspaper Yeni Istanbul as photojournalist in 1950 and
    studying Economics at the University of Istanbul at the same time. He
    then transferred to another newspaper, Hurriyet. After completing his
    military service in 1961, Guler was employed by the Turkish magazine
    Hayat as head of the photographic department.

    About this time, he met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Marc Riboud, who
    recruited him for the Magnum Photos agency, which he joined. (He is not
    currently a member.) He was presented in the British 1961 Photography
    Yearbook. Also in that year, he was accepted as the only member to
    the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) (today called
    the American Society for Media Photographers) from Turkey. The Swiss
    magazine Camera honored him with a special issue.

    In the 1960s, Guler's photographs were used to illustrate books by
    notable authors and were displayed at various exhibitions throughout
    the world. His works were exhibited in 1968 in 10 Masters of Color
    Photography at the New York Museum of Modern Art and at Photokina
    Fair in Cologne, Germany. His photo album Turkei was published in
    Germany in 1970. His photos on art and art history were used in Time,
    Life, Horizon and Newsweek magazines and publications of Skira of
    Switzerland.

    Guler traveled on assignment to such countries as Iran, Kazakhstan,
    Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Kenya, New Guinea, Borneo, as well as
    all parts of Turkey. In the 1970s he held photographic interviews with
    such notable politicians and artists as Winston Churchill, Indira
    Gandhi, Maria Callas, John Berger, Bertrand Russell, Willy Brandt,
    Alfred Hitchcock, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Marc Chagall,
    Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso.

    Guler's work is collected by international institutions, such as the
    National Library of France in Paris; the George Eastman Museum in
    Rochester, New York; University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sheldon Memorial
    Art Gallery; Museum Ludwig Köln, and Das imaginäre PhotoMuseum, Köln

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/720755/ara-g%C3%BClers-exhibition-to-launch-in-yerevan.html




    From: A. Papazian
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