(CUL) PHOTOGRAPHER ARA GULER RECEIVES "LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT" AWARD FROM LUCIE FOUNDATION.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Oct 20, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Turkish photographer Ara Guler was presented with the "Lifetime Achievement" award at the Seventh Annual Lucie International Photography Awards in New York on Monday. Guler could not attend the awards ceremony as he had health problems. Another Turkish photographer, Sarkis Baharoglu, received the award on behalf of Guler. Ara Guler was born in Istanbul in 1928. The most important living representative of creative photography in Turkey today, he has a well-established international reputation. He began a career in journalism with the newspaper Yeni Istanbul in 1950. He became a photojournalist for Time-Life in 1956 and for Paris Match Paris Match is a French weekly magazine. It's best known for the frequent use of paparazzi photographs. The magazine also covers major national and international news along with celebrity features. Paris Match was founded in 1949 by the industrialist Jean Prouvost. and Stern in 1958. Around the same time, he joined the Magnum Agency. In the British Journal of Photography Year Book published in the UK in 1968, Guler was named one of the seven best photographers in the world. In 1962, he received the 'Master of Leica' award in Germany. Guler has held hundreds of exhibitions of his work all over the world. He has also interviewed and photographed numerous celebrities ranging from Bertrand Russell (person) Bertrand Russell - (1872-1970) A British mathematician, the discoverer of Russell's paradox. and Winston Churchill to Arnold Toynbee Noun 1. Arnold Toynbee - English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975) Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Toynbee , Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali. Many examples of Ara Guler's photographic work are to be found in institutions such as the French National Library in Paris and the Sheldon Collection at Nebraska University as well as in private collections in Boston, Chicago and New York. His photographs are also on display at the Ludwig Museum and at Das Imaginare Photo-Museum, both in Cologne. Based in Los Angeles, the Lucie Foundation was established to provide support to the photography sector in the world. The foundation provides scholarships to young photographers and organizes workshops on photography. Ara Guler was the first Turk to receive an award from the Lucie Foundation. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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