Ara Güler Museum
Ara Güler Müzesi | |
  Location within Istanbul | |
| Established | 16 August 2018 |
|---|---|
| Location | Şişli, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Coordinates | 41°03′29″N 28°58′51″E / 41.05819°N 28.98075°E |
| Type | Photography museum |
Ara Güler Museum (Turkish: Ara Güler Müzesi) is a photography museum in Istanbul, Turkey, exhibiting photographs taken by the photojournalist Ara Güler. Established in 2018, the museum also houses an archive of his work.
Ara Güler Museum was opened on 16 August 2018, on the 90th birthday of the
The museum houses also an archive and research center ("Ara Güler Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi", AGAVAM). An archive team led by an art consultant at Doğuş Group carried out a two-year project on the classification, inventory, preservation, digitization and indexing of hundreds of thousands of Ara Güler's works. The archive collections are available to photography enthusiasts and researchers through a portal.[2]
Ara Güler (16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) was a notable Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".[3]
Admission to the museum is free of charge.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Ara Güler Müzesi açıldı!" (in Turkish). pab. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ a b c "Ara Güler Müzesi Açıldı" (in Turkish). Mimarizm. 17 August 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2022. |
- ^ "In pictures: 'Eye of Istanbul' photographer Ara Guler dies at 90". BBC. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2022.