Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home: The Dildilian Photography Collection

ISBN-13: 9781784537500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str.

Armen T. Marsoobian

Opis

For nearly a century members of the Dildilian family practiced the art of photography in Ottoman Turkey, Greece and the United States. This book contains over 200 photographs, primarily from the Ottoman era, beginning with the creation of the family business by Tsolag Dildilian in Sivas in central Turkey in 1882 and concluding in 1922 in Samsun, when the family was forced into exile in Greece. The photographs and the stories that unfold around them capture a defining period in the nearly three thousand year history of the Armenians in Anatolia and the Armenian Highlands. The early-twentieth century witnessed the violent erasure of the Armenians from their historic homeland, with catastrophic effects for the Dildilian family and their community. Yet this was also a period of unprecedented educational, cultural and commercial development for the Armenians. The Dildilian family was intimately involved in the triumphs and tragedies of these years and this book, through its rich pictorial history, sheds unprecedented light on the real-life experiences of Armenians in the devastating years of the Armenian Genocide and beyond. It is an unusual and original contribution to the social history of the Near East.

Spis treści

Introduction Early Photographs in Sebastia (Sivas), the Ancestral Home of the Dildilians, 1888-1894The Late 1890s and the Early Years of the New Century The Dildilians and Anatolia College: The CampusCities of Anatolia and Their SightsThe Art of Portrait PhotographyA Photographic Homage to Those Who Did Not SurvivePhotographing the Aftermath of the GenocideThe Dildilians after the War (1918-1923)Epilogue, 1926

O autorze

Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. His books include Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia (I.B.Tauris). He is a descendent of the Dildilian family.