Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names

Alex Webb
9781597110341 / 1597110345
Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names

Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names

Alex Webb
9781597110341 / 1597110345
Publisher Aperture 2007
Edition Hardcover , 136 pages
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In Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past–a city of minarets and pigeons rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to Muslim prayers–yet also a city riddled with ATM machines and clothed in designer jeans. Webb began photographing Istanbul in 1998, and became instantly enthralled: by the people, the layers of culture and history, the richness of street life. But what particularly drew him in was a sense of Istanbul as a border city, lying between Europe and Asia. “For 30-some years as a photographer, I have been intrigued by borders, places where cultures come together, sometimes easily, sometimes roughly.” The resulting body of work, some of Webb’s strongest to date, conveys the frisson of a culture in transition, yet firmly rooted in a complex history. With essay by the Nobel Prize winning novelist, Orhan Pamuk.

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Book title Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names
Photographer Alex Webb
ISBN 10 1597110345 / 1-59711-034-5       
ISBN 13 9781597110341 / 978-1-59711-034-1
Publisher Aperture
Publish date May 2007
Publish year 2007
Book format Hardcover
Language English
Pages 136 pages
Dimensions 30 x 25 cm / 12.04 x 10.14 x 0.74 inches
Weight 1,4 kg

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