TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baykan Calafato,Özge
TI  - Making the modern Turkish citizen: vernacular photography in the early Republican era 
SN  - 9780755643318
AV  - TR112 .B3952 2024
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - I. B. Tauris
KW  - Photography
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Middle class
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Portrait photography
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - nli
KW  - Turquie
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Ouvrages illustrés
N1  - BIBINDX
N2  - "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 modernization reforms took centre stage. Based on an extensive photographic archive, the book shows that individuals actively reproduced, circulated and negotiated the ideal citizen-image imposed by the Kemalist regime, reflecting not only state-imposed directives but also their class aspirations and other, wider social and cultural developments of the period, from Western fashion trends and movies to the increasing availability of modern consumer items. Calafato also reveals that the freedom from state control afforded by personal cameras allowed the desired image to be sometimes tweaked by incorporating elements from Ottoman and Turkic traditions, by pushing the boundaries of gender norms or by introducing playfulness. Making the Modern Turkish Citizen offers a valuable portrait of the ongoing political and social changes on the lives of the Turkish middle class, and of how they saw and wanted to present themselves, privately and publicly."--
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