PHOTOGRAPHY

The Eye of Istanbul

Text
Ann Tsang
Images
Ara Güler
Courtesy of the Ara Güler Archives and Research Center
Special thanks to Çağla Sarac, Temel Yilmaz
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It is unquestionably befitting that the art adorning the guest room corridors of The Peninsula Istanbul comprises a curated collection of masterful black-and-white images portraying various districts of the metropolis on the shores of the Bosphorus taken in the 1950s and 1960s by Türkiye’s most revered photographer, the late Ara Güler, known famously as ‘The Eye of Istanbul’.