This book is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Here, each in his own way paints a brushless picture of his hometown and captures, through image and word, its very soul..
Both writer and photographer each held in their youth the ambition of becoming a painter.
Guler's remarkable duotone photographs are accompanied by evocative commentaries from Orhan Pamuk, another leading figure in Turkish culture.
Captured through the unerring lens of the award winning Ara Guler, the `Eye of Istanbul', it reflects the city's melancholy aesthetic as it oscillates between tradition and modernity.
This book is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s
