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Renowned Turkish photographer dies at 90

ISTANBUL, TURKEY: (ARCHIVE) - Legendary Turkish photographer Ara Guler died on Wednesday in Istanbul. He was 90. Guler suffered a heart attack and was taken to the intensive care unit of Florence Hospital where he breathed his last. Dubbed "Eye of Istanbul", Guler rose to fame with his black-and-white portraits of the city. He was suffering from kidney failure and had to be taken for treatment thrice a week. "That dialysis makes me stupefied," he said in an interview with Anadolu Agency in 2015. I cannot do anything three days a week, it takes four hours each time and it is unbearable. However, old age and illness, did not stop him from pursuing his work. In 2015, he took pictures of the ongoing construction of Istanbuls third bridge on the Bosphorus. Guler belonged to a family of Turkish intellectuals. His mother came from an Armenian family which owned several houses around Beyoglu, a neighborhood in Istanbul. Gulers father was left an orphan at six years old. He was later a pharmacist for the Turkish army at the battle of Gallipoli in 1915. Using his father's connections, he landed his first job as an assistant film projector in one of Beyoglu's many theaters. In his fathers drugstore, where theater artists would gather regularly to buy make-up for plays, Guler met the founder of modern Turkish theater, Muhsin Ertugrul, and was even able to work with him. (Guler) always wanted to be a playwright, wrote, Nezih Tavlas in a 2003 biography on Guler called Photo Journalist. (Footage by Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
ISTANBUL, TURKEY: (ARCHIVE) - Legendary Turkish photographer Ara Guler died on Wednesday in Istanbul. He was 90. Guler suffered a heart attack and was taken to the intensive care unit of Florence Hospital where he breathed his last. Dubbed "Eye of Istanbul", Guler rose to fame with his black-and-white portraits of the city. He was suffering from kidney failure and had to be taken for treatment thrice a week. "That dialysis makes me stupefied," he said in an interview with Anadolu Agency in 2015. I cannot do anything three days a week, it takes four hours each time and it is unbearable. However, old age and illness, did not stop him from pursuing his work. In 2015, he took pictures of the ongoing construction of Istanbuls third bridge on the Bosphorus. Guler belonged to a family of Turkish intellectuals. His mother came from an Armenian family which owned several houses around Beyoglu, a neighborhood in Istanbul. Gulers father was left an orphan at six years old. He was later a pharmacist for the Turkish army at the battle of Gallipoli in 1915. Using his father's connections, he landed his first job as an assistant film projector in one of Beyoglu's many theaters. In his fathers drugstore, where theater artists would gather regularly to buy make-up for plays, Guler met the founder of modern Turkish theater, Muhsin Ertugrul, and was even able to work with him. (Guler) always wanted to be a playwright, wrote, Nezih Tavlas in a 2003 biography on Guler called Photo Journalist. (Footage by Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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