Book - CAMERA OTTOMANA: Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire 1840-1914

This book was written in Turkey, by people with Turkish sentiments.  Many in the HellenicGenealogyGeek.com group will find some things in the text and photographs offensive.  I am posting information about this book as a sometimes shocking look at the Ottoman Empire, which is of historical interest to those of us researching our Hellenic family history.

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CAMERA OTTOMANA:  Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire 1840-1914

Edited by Zeynep Celik and Edhem Eldem

Texts by Zeynep Celik, Edhem Eldem, Bahattin Ozstuncay, Frances Terpak & Peter Louis Bopnfitto

Copyright 2015 by Koc University Publications, Istanbul.

FREE ebook available online through Academia.edu

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CONTENTS::

Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Dates

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Frances Terpak & Peter Bonfitto Transferring Antiquity to Ink - Ruins from the Americas to Asia Minor and the Development of Photolithography

Bahattin Öztuncay The Origins and Development of Photography in Istanbul 

Edhem Eldem Powerful Images - The Dissemination and Impact of Photography in the Ottoman Empire, 1870–1914

Zeynep Çelik Photographing Mundane Modernity

Album:

- Political Change

- Abdülhamid as Paterfamilias

- Ottoman Exoticism

- Bookish Portraits

- Amateur Photographers

- Bad Boys

- Formal Order

- Photography at the Service of Art

- Foreign Dignitaries in the Empire

- A Taste for Folklore

- Appropriating Antiquities

- Orientalist Reality

- Serving Science and Scholarship

- Personalized Photo Cards

- Abidin the Snitch

- Private Albums, Public Spaces

- Forbidden Kitsch

- Unity in Diversity

Contributors

Bibliography

Index