Photography Collections at Salt Research
August 23, 2024
![1 Phal00300003 Osmanlı Bankası Genel Müdürlük Personeli, 1893
Fotoğraf: Nicolas Andriomenos
Salt Araştırma, Osmanlı Bankası Arşivi](/directus/media/thumbnails/1-phal00300003-jpg-1200-920-false.jpg)
The staff of Ottoman Bank General Directorate, 1893
Photograph: Nicolas Andriomenos
Salt Research, Ottoman Bank Archive
Photograph: Nicolas Andriomenos
Salt Research, Ottoman Bank Archive
Salt Research integrates print and digital resources focused on art, architecture, design, city, society, and economy, contributing to the preservation of the public memory of Turkey and its surrounding geography. The photography collections, developed over the years through donations and acquisitions, constitute a significant part of the Salt Research archives.
![3 Ahistkara159 Aziziye Karakolu, Karaköy, İstanbul<br />
Salt Araştırma, Fotoğraf ve Kartpostal Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/3-ahistkara159-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
![5 Afmsbdivh06801 Said Bey’in oğlu Hakkı Tez tarafından yapılmış bir kolaj (soldan sağa: Müzdan Arel, Hakkı Tez, Nesrin Bağana, Safi Arel), 1936<br />
Salt Araştırma, Said Bey Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/5-afmsbdivh06801-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
The Photograph and Postcard Archive, initiated in the early 2000s with the cataloging of staff and branch photographs from the Ottoman Bank Archive, offers visual insights into urban life in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. The photographs in the Households and Families Archive illuminate the social life of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods, rendering the ordinary and everyday visible.
![6 Tsoboh064 Emin Halid Onat, Clemens Holzmeister, Friedrich Hess ve Paul Bonatz, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Gümüşsuyu Kampüsü’nde öğrenci projelerine tashih verirken, 1948<br />
Salt Araştırma, Harika-Kemali Söylemezoğlu Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/6-tsoboh064-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
The Architecture and Design Archive encompasses not only the conceptual designs and realized projects of experts active in 20th-century Turkey, but also images they captured or collected for their professional work, teaching materials, photographs from their professional travels, and selections from the archives of architectural photographers. These sources offer diverse perspectives on the built environment.
![8 Sarw096001 İsmail Saray, <i>Kara Mektubu Bekleyenler</i>, <i>34ème Salon de la Jeune Peinture</i>’den görünüm, Grand Palais (Paris), 1983<br />
Salt Araştırma, İsmail Saray Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/8-sarw096001-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
Focusing on the history of art in Turkey after 1950, the Art Archive features images related to historically significant exhibitions and visual material that shed light on the artistic and cultural milieu of the period.
![9 Ifeaegiist014 Tarlabaşı Bulvarı yapım çalışmaları sırasında Şişhane Viyadüğü’nün inşaatı, 1989<br />
Fotoğraf: Marc Eginard<br />
Salt Araştırma, IFEA Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/9-ifeaegiist014-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
The collections from institutions such as the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes (IFEA) and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), in addition to the archives of contemporary photographers, are accessible online at Salt Research. Among these collections are M. Erem Çalıkoğlu’s photographs documenting Turkey’s cultural and natural heritage between 1982 and 1998, painter Eleonora Arhelaou’s photographs tracing the Greek architectural heritage in Istanbul from the 1970s to 1998, selections from Gültekin Çizgen’s architectural photography, and street photographs capturing life in 1980s Turkey from photojournalist Ali Öz’s archive, transferred to Salt Research and planned to be accessible online by the end of 2024.
![10 Elarh012701 Sarayiçi Sokak, Gedikpaşa, İstanbul, 1989<br />
Salt Araştırma, Eleonora Arhelaou Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/10-elarh012701-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
Salt Research provides access to these collections while maintaining their archival integrity and situating them within their immediate and broader contexts. The photographs are presented in conjunction with other documents in their respective collections and the broader archival body. Visual and textual sources complement and inform each other, facilitating in-depth studies.
The visual material on art, design, built environment, social history, and education in 19th and 20th-century Turkey also includes print photographs, glass negatives and positives, slides and negatives, postcards, photocards, and press images.
All images available at Salt Research can be used free of charge for individual research purposes under the Terms of Use.
![3 Ahistkara159 Aziziye Karakolu, Karaköy, İstanbul<br />
Salt Araştırma, Fotoğraf ve Kartpostal Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/3-ahistkara159-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
Aziziye Police Station, Karaköy, Istanbul
Salt Research, Photograph and Postcard Archive
Salt Research, Photograph and Postcard Archive
![5 Afmsbdivh06801 Said Bey’in oğlu Hakkı Tez tarafından yapılmış bir kolaj (soldan sağa: Müzdan Arel, Hakkı Tez, Nesrin Bağana, Safi Arel), 1936<br />
Salt Araştırma, Said Bey Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/5-afmsbdivh06801-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
Collage by Said Bey’s son Hakkı Tez (left to right: Müzdan Arel, Hakkı Tez, Nesrin Bağana, Safi Arel), 1936
Salt Research, Said Bey Archive
Salt Research, Said Bey Archive
The Photograph and Postcard Archive, initiated in the early 2000s with the cataloging of staff and branch photographs from the Ottoman Bank Archive, offers visual insights into urban life in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. The photographs in the Households and Families Archive illuminate the social life of the late Ottoman and early Republican periods, rendering the ordinary and everyday visible.
![6 Tsoboh064 Emin Halid Onat, Clemens Holzmeister, Friedrich Hess ve Paul Bonatz, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Gümüşsuyu Kampüsü’nde öğrenci projelerine tashih verirken, 1948<br />
Salt Araştırma, Harika-Kemali Söylemezoğlu Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/6-tsoboh064-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
Emin Halid Onat, Clemens Holzmeister, Friedrich Hess, and Paul Bonatz, reviewing student projects at the Istanbul Technical University Gümüşsuyu Campus, 1948
Salt Research, Harika-Kemali Söylemezoğlu Archive
Salt Research, Harika-Kemali Söylemezoğlu Archive
The Architecture and Design Archive encompasses not only the conceptual designs and realized projects of experts active in 20th-century Turkey, but also images they captured or collected for their professional work, teaching materials, photographs from their professional travels, and selections from the archives of architectural photographers. These sources offer diverse perspectives on the built environment.
![8 Sarw096001 İsmail Saray, <i>Kara Mektubu Bekleyenler</i>, <i>34ème Salon de la Jeune Peinture</i>’den görünüm, Grand Palais (Paris), 1983<br />
Salt Araştırma, İsmail Saray Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/8-sarw096001-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
İsmail Saray, Awaiting Black Mail, installation view from 34ème Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais (Paris), 1983
Salt Research, İsmail Saray Archive
Salt Research, İsmail Saray Archive
Focusing on the history of art in Turkey after 1950, the Art Archive features images related to historically significant exhibitions and visual material that shed light on the artistic and cultural milieu of the period.
![9 Ifeaegiist014 Tarlabaşı Bulvarı yapım çalışmaları sırasında Şişhane Viyadüğü’nün inşaatı, 1989<br />
Fotoğraf: Marc Eginard<br />
Salt Araştırma, IFEA Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/9-ifeaegiist014-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
Construction of the Şişhane Viaduct during the renovation of Tarlabaşı Boulevard, 1989
Photograph: Marc Eginard
Salt Research, IFEA Archive
Photograph: Marc Eginard
Salt Research, IFEA Archive
The collections from institutions such as the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes (IFEA) and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), in addition to the archives of contemporary photographers, are accessible online at Salt Research. Among these collections are M. Erem Çalıkoğlu’s photographs documenting Turkey’s cultural and natural heritage between 1982 and 1998, painter Eleonora Arhelaou’s photographs tracing the Greek architectural heritage in Istanbul from the 1970s to 1998, selections from Gültekin Çizgen’s architectural photography, and street photographs capturing life in 1980s Turkey from photojournalist Ali Öz’s archive, transferred to Salt Research and planned to be accessible online by the end of 2024.
![10 Elarh012701 Sarayiçi Sokak, Gedikpaşa, İstanbul, 1989<br />
Salt Araştırma, Eleonora Arhelaou Arşivi<br />](/directus/media/thumbnails/10-elarh012701-jpg-1200-1200-false.jpg)
Sarayiçi Street, Gedikpaşa, Istanbul, 1989
Salt Research, Eleonora Arhelaou Archive
Salt Research, Eleonora Arhelaou Archive
Salt Research provides access to these collections while maintaining their archival integrity and situating them within their immediate and broader contexts. The photographs are presented in conjunction with other documents in their respective collections and the broader archival body. Visual and textual sources complement and inform each other, facilitating in-depth studies.
The visual material on art, design, built environment, social history, and education in 19th and 20th-century Turkey also includes print photographs, glass negatives and positives, slides and negatives, postcards, photocards, and press images.
All images available at Salt Research can be used free of charge for individual research purposes under the Terms of Use.