Abdullah Frères
Abdullah Frères was a photo studio in the Ottoman capital Constantinople , which existed in the Pera district from 1858 to 1900 . The staff were the court photographers of the Turkish sultan.
The Armenian brothers vicen (also Vhichen) (1820-1902), Hovsep (1830-1908) and Kevork Abdullah (1839-1918) were in 1863 Hoffotografen the Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz followed by Abdulhamid II. They were mandated to manage the tughra (the Monogram) of the sultans. The brothers ran a studio in Cairo between 1866 and 1895 . The brothers sold the business to the Sébah & Joallier company in Constantinople in 1900 .
In the years from 1880 to 1893, the brothers took photos not only in the various districts of Constantinople such as Pera or Sirkeci , but throughout the Ottoman Empire . These photos are contained in the 51-volume collection of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II, which he donated to the USA in 1893 and which is now in the Library of Congress .
More photo work
- Constantinople, Smyrna, Beyrouth, Baalbec, Damascus. 86 prints on albumen paper, 36 × 46 cm, 1860/1890.
literature
- Engin Özendes: Abdullah Frères. Ottoman Court Photographies. YKY, Istanbul 1998, ISBN 975-363-843-4 .
- Mehmet Bahadır Dördüncü: Mecca - Medina. The Yıldız albums of Sultan Abdülhamid II. The Light, Somerset 2006, ISBN 1-59784-054-8 .
- Nimet Seker: Photography in the Ottoman Empire. Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89913-739-2 .
