Photographer Ali Sami, 1866-1936.= Fotografçi Ali Sami, 1866-1936.

Fine English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English and Turkish. 155 p., b/w ills. Photographer Ali Sami, 1866-1936.= Fotografçi Ali Sami, 1866-1936. "Ali Sami (Aközer) is born in Rusçuk in 1866, and moves to Istanbul. Because his family is registered in the Beylerbeyi quarter of Üsküdar, Ali Sami is also called Üsküdarli Ali Sami. He graduates from the Mühendishane-i Berri-i Hümayun in 1866 and becomes a teacher of painting and photography at the school. He is employed in the Ottoman army, and he is also a teacher of phography at the palace and for many years gives lessons to Prince Burhaneddin Efendi. In 1889 he becomes an aide to Abdülhamid II. As a military photographer, he is assigned by Abdülhamid II to accompany German Emperor Wilhelm II during his visit to the Ottoman Empire when he travels from Istanbul to Jerusalem in 1898, and presents an album of this journey to the sultan. After the constitutional monarchy is proclaimed, he becomes a painting teacher at Trabzon High School, and passes away in 1936 in Istanbul". (Source: From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul: Photographs of the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus from the mid XIXth century to XXth century). Contents: - The World Discovers Photography - Turkish Art and the Effect of the Industrial Revolution on the Ottoman Empire - Photography in the Ottoman Empire - The Imperial School of Engineers - Ali Sami Bey - Album - Captions to Photographs.