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Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era
Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era
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The book explores the photographic self-representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the relationship between photography and gender, body, space, materiality, and language. It reveals how individuals actively reproduced, circulated, and negotiated the ideal citizen-image imposed by the Kemalist regime, reflecting their class aspirations and wider social and cultural developments. Personal cameras allowed the desired image to be tweaked by incorporating elements from Ottoman and Turkic traditions, pushing the boundaries of gender norms, and introducing playfulness.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 25 July 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The book explores the photographic self-representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the relationship between photography and gender, body, space, materiality, and language. Its six chapters explore how the production and circulation of vernacular photographs contributed to the making of the modern Turkish citizen in the formative years of the Turkish Republic, when nation-building, secularization, and modernization reforms took center stage. Based on an extensive photographic archive, the book shows that individuals actively reproduced, circulated, and negotiated the ideal citizen-image imposed by the Kemalist regime, reflecting not only state-imposed directives but also their class aspirations and other, wider social and cultural developments of the period. Calafato also reveals that the freedom from state control afforded by personal cameras allowed the desired image to be sometimes tweaked by incorporating elements from Ottoman and Turkic traditions, by pushing the boundaries of gender norms, or by introducing playfulness. Making the Modern Turkish Citizen offers a valuable portrait of the ongoing political and social changes on the lives of the Turkish middle class and of how they saw and wanted to present themselves, privately and publicly.
Weight: 450g
Dimension: 157 x 234 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780755643318
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