E532 | What can family and individual studio photographs tell us about social life in the early Republic of Turkey? In this episode, Özge Calafato highlights the negotiations between the Kemalist state, the photographers, and the people being photographed that led to classed and gendered representation of modern Turkish citizens in vernacular photography. Calafato analyzes not only the image, but also the context of production and the inscriptions written behind photographs. Looking at photos of subjects as ranging from beauty queens and feminist activists to bank employees and soldiers, she considers the production and circulation of photos not only in urban studios and within families but also in rural areas and within friendship groups.
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Özge Calafato is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests lie at the intersection of photography, archives, memory and cultural identity. She is the author of "Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era" (I.B. Tauris, 2022).
Zeinab Azarbadegan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the intersection of inter-imperial relations and history of science, technology, and medicine, in nineteenth century Ottoman Iraq
CREDITS
Episode No. 532
Release Date: 11 October 2022
Audio editing by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: Seyyan Hanım - Gönlüm Sensiz Olmaz, İbrahim Özgür- Mavi Kelebek, Seyyan Hanım - Mazi
Images courtesy of Akkasah, the photography archive at al Mawrid, NYUAD. Copyright al Mawrid
Bibliography courtesy of Özge Calafato available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/10/calafato.html
