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Photography In Turkey
Photography in Turkey began in the late nineteenth century. History 19th century photography Already in the 1870s printing companies were using photography in major coastal cities to document buildings and monuments for the municipal government, and to produce postcards for tourists. In this way cities like Smyrna (Izmir) and Trebizond (Trabzon) were documented in the late 19th century. The majority of these photographers and postcard editors were Greeks, Armenians and Italians. Outside Constantinople photography first took off in Trabzon. A photographer of Russian origin called Yermakof opened a photostudio in the city in 1868. Hatchik Tcholakian was an Armenian photographer who opened his studio in Trabzon in the 1870s. However, there were Turks active in the business as well. Kitabi Hamdi Efendi (Bookseller Hamdi), the Turkish owner of a printing house in Trabzon, was publishing his photographs (and those of others), and he sold photo cameras as well. Another Turkish photographer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitabi Hamdi Efendi
People of the Book, or ''Ahl al-Kitāb'' (), is a classification in Islam for the adherents of those religions that are regarded by Muslims as having received a divine revelation from God in Islam, Allah, generally in the form of a Islamic holy books, holy scripture. The classification chiefly refers to pre-Islamic Abrahamic religions. In the Quran, they are identified as the Jews, the Christians, the Sabians, and—according to some interpretations—the Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrians. Beginning in the 8th century, this recognition was extended to other groups, such as the Samaritans (who are closely related to the Jews),. and, controversially, Hindu–Islamic relations, Hindus, Buddhism and Islam, Buddhists, Islam and Jainism, Jains, and Islam and Sikhism, Sikhs, among others. In most applications, "People of the Book" is simply used by Muslims to refer to the followers of Islamic–Jewish relations, Judaism and Christianity and Islam, Christianity, with which Islam shares many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
