THE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS OF “ISTANBUL:MEMORIES OF THE CITY”: A CONSTELLATION OF THE PAST AND THE FUTURE

After more than a decade since the publication of book "Istanbul: Memories and City", this article focuses on case family photo albums, used to animate distant blurred past that reveals signs anticipated decadence city. Other evidential, factual, comparative qualities documentary photograph, questions how silent frames communicate with their "limited" universe. Here, aim is focus photographs or snaps Pamuk’s spread over two decades. Although consists many images within different contextual formal appearances, seem exist as process self-reflectivity define critical access city where author expressed his existence. In paper, widen, contrary, immobilize narrativeness text by creating another textual reference for reader; appear visual references emphasize what refers in sense. City" Orhan Pamuk compared literary tradition employs photographic image fictional non-fictional narratives understand reflect, change, remove reader finds text.