Country: Turkey
Collection Type: Private collection
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Glass plates positives and/or negatives
Website: http://tayfunserttas.com/works/foto_galatasaray.html

The Foto Galatasaray project is based on the re-visualization of the complete professional archive of Maryam Şahinyan (Sivas, 1911 – İstanbul, 1996), who worked as a photographer at her studio in Galatasaray, Beyoğlu from 1935 until 1985.

The archive is a unique inventory of the demographic transformations occurring on the socio-cultural map of İstanbul after the declaration of the Republic and the historical period it witnessed; it is also a chronological record of a female İstanbulite studio photographer’s professional career. Armed with the wooden bellows camera her father originally took over from a family that immigrated from the Balkans in the aftermath of the First World War and the black-and-white sheet film she continued to use until 1985, Şahinyan, in a sense, arrested time – both against the technological advancements photography was experiencing and contemporary trends. In the end, she created an unparalleled visual coherence without compromising her technical and aesthetic principles.

The collection consists entirely of black-and-white and glass negatives. The physical archive of Foto Galatasaray is a rare surviving example of the classical photography studios of İstanbul’s recent past.

Approximately 200,000 negatives in the archive were sorted, cleaned, digitized, digitally restored, categorized by a team under the direction of artist/researcher Tayfun Serttaş.

Contact Details: Name: Tayfun Serttas
Email: [email protected]
Address: SALT/ Garanti Platform, Taksim. Istiklal Cad. Garanti Han. No: 115A Istiklal Cad. Garanti Han. No: 115A, Istanbul, Turkey
Tel: +905358257331

Country: Turkey
Collection Type: Library University
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Digital files Film-based negatives Prints Slides (positives)
Website: http://library.ku.edu.tr

Koç University Suna Kıraç Library was founded in 1993 as a non-profit private university in Istanbul. Its recently established library and photo-archive was created after the donation of the late Turkish-American art historian Esin Atil (1938- ) and ethnographer Josephine Powell (1919-2007). The library’s archive includes rare books and manuscripts collections in addition to a photographic collection of more than 50,000 images of various types, such as film-based negatives, slides, prints as well as digital files, all acquired by donation and dating mostly from the 1960s. The collection of slides date from 1960s to 2000s and vary in size, 5×4 and 5×6. In addition to this, printed photographs are also featured, illustrating Koç’s University history since its foundation. The collection is still expanding and is partially digitzed and catalogued on a database, and a portion is accessible online.
Koç’s University library is currently working on digitizing the rich and recently acquired collection, the Hittite collection, which will appear online soon.

Contact Details:
Name: Huseyin Eski / Tuba Akbayturk Canak
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Address: Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul
Tel: +90 212 3381222

Other:
Further online access to collections: http://digitalcollections.library.ku.edu.tr/cdm/

Country: Turkey
Collection Type: Cultural organisation Library Museum Research center
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints Slides (positives)
Website: http://saltonline.org/

SALT comprises an extensive library that focuses on the arts, architecture, design, urbanism, and social and economic history, as well as an archive of physical and digital documents. The archive collections of SALT Research include Contemporary Art Archives, Ottoman Bank Archive, The Archive of Architecture and Design, Italian Embassy Archive, Saint Pierre Archive, World Council of Churches Archive, The Archive of Crete, French Press in the Ottoman Empire, Maps, as well as general photographs, family archives, magazines, newspapers, coins, lists, and plans. The collections includes photographs from the 19th and 20th century related to art, design, architecture and urbanism, and social history. Photographs were acquired by donation, deposit and purchase and the collection is still expanding. Formats include film based negatives, glass negatives and positives, positive prints, digital files, Black and White images and color images. Photographs are available at distance on an electronic database.

Contact Details:
Name: Sinem Ayse Gulmez
Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Address: Bankalar Caddesi, No 11, Karaköy-İstanbul
Tel: +90 0212 334 22 00