A Road Story. 180 Years of Photography

285 pp, color figures, pb, in Turkish-English bilingual.

At the 180^th anniversary of invention of photography and the first photography trip that took place in 1839, A Road Story: 180 Years of Photography exhibition brings together interpretations and perspectives of photographers who explore the same route with today’s techniques. French painter Émile Jean Horace Vernet, painter Charles Marie Bouton who is among the inventors of Diorama technique, and daguerreotypist Frédéric Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet depart from the port of Marseille in October 1839 to take photographs and return to Marseille 6 months later, in April 1840 passing from Livorno, Malta, Syros, Paros, Naxos, Santorini, Alexandria, Cairo, Suez, Gaza, Jerusalem, Nablus, Nazareth, Acre, Saida, Deir Al Qamar, Damascus, Tripoli, Beirut, Larnaca, Rhodes, Kos, Izmir, Dardanelles and Istanbul. At the 180^th anniversary of this first known group photography trip, the exhibition curated by Engin Özendes features the artists Coşkun Aral, Laleper Aytek, Ali Borovalı, Murat Germen, Sinan Koçaslan, Yusuf Sevinçli, Alp Sime, Lale Tara, Serkan Taycan and Cem Turgay. The photographs they took during their trips to the stops of the earlier journey reflect a contemporary take on these cities with rich histories.

The exhibition catalog features a curatorial text by Engin Özendes, which focuses on the journey that took place 180 years ago, including Frédéric Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet’s impressions about this journey published in his book, Voyage d’Horace Vernet en Orient. The catalog also includes personal impressions of the artists who visited different cities to take photographs for this exhibition. The photographs that they took are accompanied by the first photography attempts published in Fesquet’s book.

CONTENTS

4 Foreword
Suna, İnan & İpek Kıraç

8 A Road Story: 180 Years of Photography
Engin Özendes

52 Marseille
Serkan Taycan

60 Livorno
Serkan Taycan

66 Malta
Serkan Taycan

74 Syros
Laleper Aytek

88 Paros
Ali Borovalı

94 Naxos
Ali Borovalı

100 Santorini
Ali Borovalı

108 Alexandria
Murat Germen

116 Cairo
Murat Germen

124 Luxor
Murat Germen

128 Suez
Murat Germen

136 Mount Sinai
Coşkun Aral

140 Gaza
Coşkun Aral

146 Bethlehem
Coşkun Aral

154 Jerusalem
Coşkun Aral

164 Nablus
Coşkun Aral

170 Saida
Coşkun Aral

174 Deir Al Qamar
Coşkun Aral

180 Damascus
Coşkun Aral

186 Tripoli
Coşkun Aral

194 Baalbek
Sinan Koçaslan

202 Beirut
Sinan Koçaslan

212 Larnaca
Yusuf Sevinçli

218 Rhodes
Yusuf Sevinçli

224 Kos
Lale Tara

236 Izmir
Cem Turgay

246 Dardanelles
Alp Sime

258 Istanbul
Alp Sime

270 Malta
Serkan Taycan

272 Rome
Serkan Taycan

280 Marseille
Serkan Taycan