“Istanbul is a city of a million cells, and every cell is an Istanbul unto itself.” Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners—Demirtay the student, the doctor, Kamo the barber, and Uncle Küheylan—sit, awaiting their turn at the hands of their wardens. When they are not subject to unimaginable violence, the condemned tell one another stories about the city, shaded wi...(展开全部)

阿拉•古勒（Ara Güler，1928—2018），亚美尼亚裔土耳其摄影师、记者和作家，被誉为“伊斯坦布尔之眼”，是土耳其少数几位享有国际声誉的摄影师之一。他曾是土耳其阅读量最大的新闻周刊《生活》首席摄影师，并经著名摄影师布列松及马克•吕布推荐加入了玛格南图片社。他拍摄的足迹遍布世界各地，还曾为毕加索、甘地、丘吉尔等名人做过摄影采访。古勒的档案馆坐落在土耳其的加拉塔萨雷，收藏了约80万张照片。玛格南图片社如此评价他的成就：“一代代土耳其摄影师都是看着他那充满怀旧和梦幻的伊斯坦布尔照片成长起来的。他的激情与献身精神永不枯竭，启发了我们所有人。” 奥尔罕·帕慕克（Orhan Pamuk，1952— ），诺贝尔文学奖得主，当代最杰出的小说家之一。生于伊斯坦布尔，自幼学画，大学主修建筑，后从文。2006年获诺贝尔文学奖，授奖词称：“在探索他故乡忧郁的灵魂时...(展开全部)

Istanbul is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Turkey?s cultural capital from the 1940s to the 1980s. Captured through the unerring lens of award-winning lensmaster Ara Gler, the ?Eye of Istanbul?, it reflects the melancholic aesthetic of the city as it oscillates between tradition and modernity. The striking black-and-white photographs in this book are accompanied ...(展开全部)

This book is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s. 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. Gulers remarkable duotone photographs are accompanied by evocative commentaries from Orhan Pamuk, anot...(展开全部)

This book is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s. 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. Gulers remarkable duotone photographs are accompanied by evocative commentaries from Orhan Pamuk, anot...(展开全部)

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence shaken regularly by natural disasters and by the turmoil of sultanic politics and violent revolt. Its inhabit...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)

Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ot...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)

埃布鲁·宝雅（Ebru Boyar）是土耳其中东技术大学国际关系学院副教授，对土耳其的历史文化有深刻的理解。她的著作包括《奥斯曼与贸易》《土耳其与巴尔干半岛：帝国的失落及关系转换》。 凯特·弗利特（Kate Fleet）系剑桥大学纽纳姆学院斯科尔特奥斯曼研究中心（Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies）主任。她的著作包括《奥斯曼的投降：文本与语境》以及学术含金量极高的《剑桥土耳其史》（第一卷，拜占庭到土耳其【1071—1453】）部分。