Reimagining a lost Armenian home
Subtitle: the Dildilian photography collection
By: by Armen T. Marsoobian
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781350987760; 9781838609016
Subjects: Armenians; Portraits; Pictorial works
Description: "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 300 photographs, most taken during the Ottoman era. The photos record a crucial half century of Armenian culture, with the earliest dating from 1888, when Tsolag Dildilian opened and operated the family business in central Anatolia, first in Sivas and later in Marsovan and Samsun, and the last taken in late 1930s Greece after the family's forced exile from their homeland in 1922. The photographs and the stories that unfold around them capture a defining period in the nearly 3,000-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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Early Photographs in Sebastia (Sivas), the Ancestral Home of the Dildilians, 1888-1894; title: The Late 1890s and the Early Years of the New Century; title: The Dildilians and Anatolia College: The Campus; title: Cities of Anatolia and Their Sights; title: The Art of Portrait Photography; title: A Photographic Homage to Those Who Did Not Survive; title: Photographing the Aftermath of the Genocide; title: The Dildilians after the War (1918-1923); title: Epilogue, 1926.