Ara Güler's finest work exhibited

Raymond A. Hare collection, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

An exhibit featuring Ara Güler’s finest will be exhibited at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C.

Entitled, “In Focus: Ara Güler’s Anatolia,” the exhibition will go on through May 4.

Featured are photographs of medieval Seljuk and Armenian buildings that Güler, who is now eighty-five years old, took in the early 1960s and printed in 1965.

Ara Güler, known as the “Eye of Istanbul,” is widely recognized for his iconic views of street life in Turkey in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the popularity of his images of Istanbul and his portraits of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and other famous personalities, the photojournalist feels his real contributions to human history are his photographs of archaeological and historical sites in Anatolia.

Students from Johns Hopkins University, in partnership with the museums, selected the photographs, which are part of the Raymond A. Hare collection in the Freer and Sackler Archives.

The exhibition therefore brings images of important Anatolian structures to an American audience, highlighting both the rich cultural history of the region and an important body of Güler’s work.

Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries has also setup a Flickr gallery, which can be viewed here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freersackler/11437828135/in/set-72157639528018153/

Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is located at the Smithsonian Institution, located at 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

(Photo Above) ŀshak Paşa Palace, Doğubayazıt; Ara Güler; silver gelatin print, 1965