285 pp, color figures, pb, in Turkish-English bilingual.
At the 180th 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 180th 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
