ARA GULER WAS PRESENTED WITH THE "LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT" AWARD

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.10.2009 15:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish photographer Ara Guler was presented with the
"Lifetime Achievement" award at the Seventh Annual Lucie International
Photography Awards in New York on Monday.Guler could not attend the
awards ceremony as he had health problems.

Another Turkish photographer, Sarkis Baharoglu, received the award
on behalf of Guler.

Ara Guler was born in Istanbul in 1928. The most important living
representative of creative photography in Turkey today, he has a
well-established international reputation. He began a career in
journalism with the newspaper Yeni Istanbul in 1950. He became a
photojournalist for Time-Life in 1956 and for Paris Match and Stern
in 1958. Around the same time, he joined the Magnum Agency. In the
British Journal of Photography Year Book published in the UK in 1968,
Guler was named one of the seven best photographers in the world. In
1962, he received the ‘Master of Leica’ award in Germany. Guler has
held hundreds of exhibitions of his work all over the world. He has
also interviewed and photographed numerous celebrities ranging from
Bertrand Russell and Winston Churchill to Arnold Toynbee, Pablo
Picasso and Salvador Dali.

Many examples of Ara Guler’s photographic work are to be found
in institutions such as the French National Library in Paris and
the Sheldon Collection at Nebraska University as well as in private
collections in Boston, Chicago and New York. His photographs are also
on display at the Ludwig Museum and at Das Imaginare Photo-Museum,
both in Cologne.

Based in Los Angeles, the Lucie Foundation was established to provide
support to the photography sector in the world. The foundation
provides scholarships to young photographers and organizes workshops
on photography. Ara Guler was the first Turk to receive an award from
the Lucie Foundation.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress