Under the Light of the Republic The Photographs of Othmar Pferschy
Exhibition catalogue Published by Istanbul Modern Curator, Engin Ozendes
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Cornucopia Issue 35 Cover Story
After the grim years of the early 1920s, Turkey experienced a brief period of euphoria. A new Republic was born, and new faces appeared in this land of hope, among them the brilliant but now forgotten photographer Othmar Pferschy (1898-1984), who turned up on the Orient Express in 1926 and stayed for forty years. In 2005 his daughter Astrid von Schell donated his archives to Istanbul Modern, who staged his first-ever retrospective. Cornucopia has selected some of his most poetic images. On page 78 of Cornucopia 35, Norman Stone examines why it was that so many Central Europeans were drawn to Turkey
Photographs courtesy of Istanbul Modern Art Museum
The Golden Horn at dusk Evening stillness: an early 1950s photograph captures Istanbul's witching hour. Gleaming American taxis queue up on the Galata Bridge at Karakoy. The Halep (Aleppo) paddle steamer was built in Germany in 1903 to serve Haydarpasa railway station
