Ottomans and the Kodak Galaxy

Archiving Everyday Life and Historical Space in Ottoman Illustrated Journals

Bibliographic Data

ID14695281
AuthorsAhmet Ersoy (0000-0002-3357-9659, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author), Ahmet A Ersoy
Year2016
Volume40
Issue3
Pages330-357
Publication date2016-07-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of Photography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-7298 • E-ISSN: 2150-7295
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03087298.2016.1215401
OpenAlexW2520745010
LanguageEN
Citations received15

This article investigates late nineteenth-century Ottoman illustrated journals as a key site for the articulation of new, popular, and visualised forms of historical knowledge and sensibility in the imperial domain. Focusing on the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, a period from 1876 to 1909 marked by the beginnings of print industry and rising levels of literacy in the Ottoman world, the article situates photography within a mixed, hybrid, and highly image-based media environment that radically transformed Ottoman modes of looking and remembering. Allowing new forms of reading, viewing, and popular participation, the journals helped refashion and pluralise collective images of the empire’s material past. The article argues that the new visions of history and antiquity that emerged in the Ottoman journals were not merely an ideological package imposed by the state and passively consumed by the readers. The journals played an essential role in creating a highly visualised interface where popular and official forms of historical imagination mingled and interpenetrated

Aesthetics · Art · Everyday life · Ideology · Literature · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Reign · Sensibility · Sociology · Vision · Visual arts · Anthropology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Turkey's Politics and Society

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