British Pathé, the world's leading film and newsreel producer shared their entire archive on You Tube last year; did you hear that? More than 85,000 short documentaries, which captured significant events of the 20th century are now accessible...
British Pathé, the world's leading film and newsreel producer shared their entire archive on You Tube last year; did you hear that? More than 85,000 short documentaries, which captured significant events of the 20th century are now accessible...
Maybe the list is not as light and bubbly as you would expect from a summer list but hey Istanbul is all about drama and this one carries the melancholic undertones we Istanbullites would love to indulge in whatever is the season. 1. Vosporos ...
Vintage Constantinople postcards are somehow still popular in Istanbul after more than a hundred years they were first printed. It was Max Fruchtermann, an Austria-Hungarian entrepreneur, who opened a shop in Pera and popularized the picture postcards...
"Farewell to Istanbul" by the great Turkish cartoonist, Semih Balcıoğlu (1928-2006) is a collection of cartoons that bids farewell to an Istanbul that is long gone. As a child, I remember following him in one of the mainstream newspapers. The older...
Writing the monograph of a city is never an easy task, I am sure. even more difficult if the city is Istanbul, once known as Byzantium or Constantinople. The historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore takes on such a challenge trying to squeeze so much into...
It was at Canlandıranlar Animators Festival that I came across Melis Bilgin’s animation, Tetrist. Remember Tetris, the phenomenal video game of the 90s, in which you are supposed to keep building blocks until there is no room left? Melis’ Tetrist...
In the 1990s, a photo historian's discovery of Charles W. Cushman's archive revealed the '30s world in color, an era which we are very much used to seeing in black. It turned out that Cushman, an amateur photographer, was one of the early adopters of Kodak's...
The dome of Hagia Sophia. During the extensive restoration carried out by Fossatti Brothers in the mid 1800s, the calligrapher Kazasker Izzet Efendi decorated the dome with the verse from Qur'an "In the name of Allah, the beneficient, the merciful,...