Pirate grec de l'Archipel. Palicar
1843
Bibliographic Citation
GOUPIL-FESQUET, Frédéric Auguste Antoine. Voyage d’Horace Vernet en Orient rédigé par M. Goupil Fesquet, Paris, Challamel [1843].
Revisiting Photography’s First Road Trip
Ten Turkish artists follow daguerreotypist Frédéric Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet’s 180-year-old journey through the Eastern Mediterranean.
Nearly two centuries later, 10 Turkish photographers set off to follow in his footsteps, traveling to the same cities Goupil-Fesquet and his artist companions — painters Émile Jean Horace Vernet and Charles Marie Bouton — visited to capture them with contemporary eyes. At the Pera Museum, an exhibition on the two journeys, A Road Story: 80 Years of Photography, contemplates how places and the way we perceive them have changed since the 19th-century dawn of photography.
With few of Goupil-Fesquet’s fragile daguerreotypes having survived to the present day, the exhibit paints a historical picture of the region using text excerpts from his published travelogue, reproductions of a set of lithographs based on his images — primarily Orientalist portraits and street scenes of the “exotic” East — and black-and-white photos of the 29 places on his itinerary, taken later in the 19th century. The images by the contemporary photographers, curated by photography historian Engin Özendes for their varied visual languages, range from Cem Turgay’s surreal, cinematic scenes in neglected neighborhoods of İzmir, Turkey, to Sinan Koçaslan’s documenting of daily life amid ancient ruins and the scars of modern conflict in Baalbek and Beirut, Lebanon. The exhibition features work by contemporary photographers Coşkun Aral, Laleper Aytek, Ali Borovalı, Murat Germen, Sinan Koçaslan, Yusuf Sevinçli, Alp Sime, Lale Tara, Serkan Taycan, and Cem Turgay.
[1] Palikarya: fromGR palikária παλικάρια [çoğ.] Rum delikanlısı < Yun palikári παλικάρι [küç.] delikanlı, genç erkek çocuk < EYun pallēks, pallēk- παλλήξ, παλληκ- a.a. +ari
Oldest source: [ Namık Kemal, Osmanlı Modernleşmesinin Meseleleri (1872) ]
Arapça ballūṭ from Aramaic/Syriac balūṭā (meşe palamudu) forms fromGR Hjalmar Frisk, Griechisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch I.213 Yunanca sözcüğün Hintavrupa kökenli olduğunu güçlü delillerle ortaya koyar. Latince glans, Rusça jelud, Ermenice <>i kalin > gaġin կաղին gen. gaġno (aynı anlamda), aynı HAvr sözcüğün refleksleridir. Hintavrupa Anadilinde *gʷ sesi düzenli olarak Latince /g/, Slavca /j/, Ermenice /k/, Yunanca /b/ verir. Watkins 146.
