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Ara Güler (born August 16, 1928, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish photojournalist and photographer of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".

Early life

Güler was born into a family of Armenian ethnicity. His father owned a pharmacy on Istiklal Avenue and had a wide circle of friends from the art world of the period. Ara Güler's early contact with this art world motivated him to embark on a career in cinema. Already during his high school years, he jobbed in movie studios and attended drama courses held by Muhsin ErtuÄŸrul, the founder of modern Turkish theater. However, he abandoned cinema in favor of journalism, joining the staff of the newspaper Yeni Istanbul as photojournalist in 1950 and studied Economics at the University of Istanbul at the same time. He then transferred to another newspaper, Hürriyet. Il sito personale di Lucio Governa, appassionato fotografo napoletano macro,
moments, nature, nudes, people, plants, portraits, shapes and still life.

Photography career

In 1958, the American magazine Time-Life opened a branch in Turkey, for which Güler became its first correspondent for the Near East. Soon followed commissions for some other international media like Paris-Match (French magazine), Stern (German magazine) and Sunday Times (English newspaper). After completing his military service in 1961, he was employed by the Turkish magazine Hayat as head of the photographic department.

It was around this period that he met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Marc Riboud, who both encouraged him to join the Magnum Photos agency, which he did. He was presented as "one of the seven best photographers" in the British 1961 Photography Yearbook. Also in that year, he was accepted as the first and only Turkish member to the ASMP, the American Society of Magazine Photographers (today American Society for Media Photographers).