Yıldız Moran
Yıldız Moran (Arun; 24 July 1932 – 15 April 1995) was a Turkish photographer who was active from 1950 to 1962. Her work has posthumously been shown in solo exhibitions at Pera Museum and at İstanbul Modern in Istanbul, and is held in the collection of the latter.
Also recorded as Yildiz Moran
Yıldız Moran
- Born
- 1932 · Istanbul.
- Died
- 1995 · Istanbul.
- Nationality
- Turkey
- Occupation
- photographer · translator · lexicographer
- Education
- Robert College
- Languages
- Turkish · English
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Yıldız Moran (Arun; 24 July 1932 – 15 April 1995) was a Turkish photographer who was active from 1950 to 1962. Her work has posthumously been shown in solo exhibitions at Pera Museum and at İstanbul Modern in Istanbul, and is held in the collection of the latter.
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Yıldız Moran (1932–1995) was a Turkish lexicographer, photographer and translator. The lexicographer was born and died in Istanbul. Yıldız Moran was educated at Robert College.
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Life and work
Life and work
Moran attended Robert College in Istanbul, leaving in her senior year. Following the advice of her uncle, art historian Mazhar Şevket İpşiroğlu, she then moved to the UK and studied photography first at Bloomsbury Technical College and then at Ealing Technical College in London. She was active as a photographer from 1950 to 1962, when she gave up photography to pursue lexicography. Moran married poet Özdemir Asaf in 1963 and had three children in four years.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• Timeless Photographs, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013/14 • Yıldız Moran: A Mountain Tale, İstanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019
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Life and career
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1932
Yıldız Moran born at Istanbul.
1995
Yıldız Moran died at Istanbul.
Publications
• Fotoğrafcı. Istanbul: Adam, 1998.. Exhibition catalogue. • Yıldız Moran: Zamansız Fotoğraflar / Timeless Photographs. Istanbul: Pera Museum, 2013.. Exhibition catalogue. Text in Turkish and English. • Yıldız Moran. Eczacıbaşı Photographers Series. Istanbul: Eczacıbaşi, 2017. Edited by Merih Akoğul.. A retrospective. Text in Turkish and English.
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Moran's work is held in the following permanent collection: • İstanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
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- “Yıldız Moran”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q24680679: Yıldız Moran
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- 1.Tartici, Ayten. Turkey's Photography Doyenne. The New York Review of Books.
- 2.Turkey's first academically trained female photographer gets her dues. Hürriyet Daily News.
- 3.Kısa, güçlü ve etkili bir ışık: Yıldız Moran. www.hurriyet.com.tr.
- 4.Istanbul Rising. Wall Street Journal. 17 September 2011. 0099-9660.
- 5.Cornucopia Magazine Eye of the Beholder. www.cornucopia.net.
- 6.Yıldız Moran: 'A Mountain's Tale' at Istanbul Modern. Daily Sabah. 12 December 2018.
- 7.Pera Museum. www.peramuseum.org.
- 8.An ode to black and white: Merih Akoğul talks Yıldız Moran. Time Out Istanbul.
- 9.'A Mountain Tale' by Yıldız Moran at Istanbul Modern. Hürriyet Daily News.
- 10.ArtAsiaPacific: A Mountain Tale. ArtAsiaPacific.
- 11.Yıldız Moran: A Mountain Tale - İstanbul Modern. www.istanbulmodern.org.
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