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Ara Güler

Ara Güler (1928 - 2018)

Ara Güler was born in Istanbul in 1928 and studied at the Istanbul University Faculty of Economics while working for the newspaper Yeni Istanbul in 1950. In 1958 he was appointed by Time-Life, Paris Match and Der Stern magazines as their photo reporter for the Near-East. He met Henri Cartier Bresson in 1953 and joined the Paris Magnum Agency; he was elected one of the best seven photographers in the world by the “Photography Annual Anthology” published in the U.K and is the only Turkish member of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers). In 1962, he was awarded the “Master of Leica” prize of Germany, an award granted to very few photographers. His art and history of art photos were published in the U.S Time-Life, Horizon and Newsweek anthologies as well as by the Swiss Skira Publishing House. He traveled around the world for photographic interviews published by the Magnum Agency. Ara Güler’s works are exhibited at the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, Rochester George Eastman Museum, the Sheldon Collection of Nebraska University as well as the Köln Photo Museum. He passed away in Istanbul in 2018.