Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era

Featuring over 100 colour images, this book explores the photographic self—representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey in the 1920s and the 1930s. Examining the relationship between photography and gender, body, space as well as materiality and language, its six chapters explore how the production and circulation of vernacular photographs contributed to the making of the modern Turkish citizen in the formative years of the Turkish Republic, when nation—building, secularization and...