《Ara Güler's Istanbul》简介：

This book is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s. Captured through the unerring lens of the award winning Ara Guler, the Eye of Istanbul, it reflects the city's melancholy aesthetic as it oscillates between tradition and modernity. Gulers remarkable duotone photographs are accompanied by evocative commentaries from Orhan Pamuk, another leading figure in Turkish culture. Both writer and photographer each held in their youth the ambition of becoming a painter. Here, each in his own way paints a brushless picture of his hometown and captures, through image and word, its very soul.

《Ara Güler's Istanbul》摘录：

让我把这种感受跟呼愁稍作分别吧，呼愁是我在我的书《伊斯坦布尔》里描述过的一种特别的忧郁。但我说的这种感受，是由无辜和自发的现代性景观引起的：它不是呼愁。当然，在古勒的摄影里，也有很多伊斯坦布尔的呼愁，也有尖锐的苦痛。这也是为什么当我描述这个城市在我身上引起的忧郁时，我使用了如此多的他的照片。但是，观看渔船如此神秘地聚集在博斯普鲁斯海峡和金角湾，意味着一种非常不同的感受事物的方式：它是一种看到自然像孩子一般在公寓、货车、旧厂、大清真寺、货栈、烟囱以及光塔上嬉戏时的兴奋。——或者，更确切地说，是看见自然在现代性及历史的丰碑和废墟中嬉戏时的兴奋。