Orhan Pamuk: Orange
Brand: Steidl
Categories: Books, Arts & Photography, Photography & Video



Dimensions: 7 x 0.9 x 10 inches
ISBN-13: 978-3958296534
Language: English
ISBN-10: 395829653X
Publisher: Steidl
Print length: 189 pages
Publication date: September 22, 2020
subtitle: Hardcover – September 22, 2020
author: Orhan Pamuk
review: Editorial Reviews Review Besides the warm feelings evoked by the lighting, Pamuk also tells us what and who we are looking at...The what and who are qualities I remain ignorant of in my own photos. -- Tom Bowden ― The Book Beat “Orange” a collection of some 350 nocturnal photographs of Istanbul ... are at once similar ― all showing densely packed old urban neighborhoods ― and varied ― what those neighborhoods are packed with is profusely diverse [...] What inspired Pamuk to take the photos was noticing that the progressive installation of fluorescent streetlights has meant “the slow retreat of yellow light.” He set about on nighttime expeditions to capture the waning of that orange. -- Mark Feeney ― Boston Globe In Orange Pamuk...wields a Canon camera, but this time he enjoys little control over his mise-en-scène. The comfort of the balcony and the preplanned distant-viewing sessions have been abandoned for Istanbul’s grim streets, which impose their own aesthetics on his lens [...] These images―chaotic, disorienting and unromantic, in search of a center that’s never found―appear in the book in the style of a personal photo album. -- Kaya Genç ― The Point