Leaks from Photograph to Text: Reading the Relationship Between Photograph and Text in the Book of Orhan Pamuk’s Resimli İstanbul Cover Image

Fotoğraftan Metne Sızanlar: Orhan Pamuk’un “Resimli İstanbul” Kitabında Fotoğrafın Metinle Kurduğu İlişkiyi Okumak
Leaks from Photograph to Text: Reading the Relationship Between Photograph and Text in the Book of Orhan Pamuk’s Resimli İstanbul

Author(s): Pelin Erdal Aytekin
Subject(s): Photography, Aesthetics, Novel, Turkish Literature, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of History
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Orhan Pamuk; photography; literature; memory; history;

Summary/Abstract: This work focuses on the relationship between photography and literary text. In 2003, Orhan Pamuk published his book named Istanbul-Hatıralar ve Şehir with 200 photographs, but later the book added 230 more photographs and enlarged its dimensions and printed again in 2015 with the name of Resimli Istanbul - Hatıralar ve Şehir. Thus, by strengthening the relation of books, photographs, and texts and by increasing the effect created by the photographs, it becomes a book based on texts to a book based on visuality. The purpose of this study is to examine how visual and imaginative power created by photographs influences texts and how texts relate to photographs by moving from one point to the other. The fact that photographs and literature have different artistic frameworks in terms of the way they are produced even more important where they interact with each other. Within this whole study; how memory, history, recollection, and photography serve these areas, and how much artistic production that they feed researched. In particular, how the novel, Resimli İstanbul - Hatıralar ve Şehir, interacted with the image was tried to be examined in an interpretive social science approach. In this interaction, it seemed that two different areas intersect at many points, where the photos reinforce the narrative in a simultaneous manner with the text.

  • Issue Year: 24/2018
  • Issue No: 95
  • Page Range: 187-202
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish