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Yem Publications, İstanbul December 2013, 20 X 27 cm., 356 Page
(Turkish and English editions)
ISBN: 978-605-4793-22-8

Photography in the Ottoman Empire provides an account of the history of photography in the Ottoman Empire between the years 1839-1923, an important though neglected field in the history of an early photography.

The sultans of the Ottoman Empire traditionally shaped the arts of their day, and their enthusiastic reaction to the discovery of photography was to be crucial in the development of photography in the empire.