Foto Galatasaray is based on a selection from the complete professional archive of
Maryam Şahinyan (Sivas, 1911 – Istanbul, 1996), who worked as a photographer at her modest studio inGalatasaray, Beyoğlu in Istanbul uninterruptedly from 1935 until 1985. The archive is a unique inventory of the demographic transformations occurring on the sociocultural map of Istanbul after the declaration of the Republic and the historical period it witnessed; it is also a chronological record of a female Istanbulite studio photographer’s professional career.
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