Naciye Suman

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Naciye Suman or Madame Naciye (occasionally Naciye Hanım , born April 23, 1881 in Üsküp, today Skopje , † July 23, 1973 in Ankara ) was Turkey's first professional photographer.

Life

Suman was born in 1881 as the daughter of the officer Salih Bey in Skopje, then Ottoman . In 1903 she married the officer İsmail Hakkı Bey, with whom she had three children. Her son Nusret Suman became a well-known sculptor. Due to the Balkan Wars in 1912/13, the family had to flee to Anatolia . Suman lost her fourth child on the run near the Hungarian border. The family fled to safe Istanbul and a friend helped them escape to Vienna from the approaching conflict. Here Suman began to deal with the still new technology of photography. As early as 1914, however, her husband was called back to Turkey and the family settled with the mother and grandmother of İsmail Hakkı Bey with three employees in the Saitpaşa Mansion in Yıldız in the Istanbul district of Beşiktaş . Suman had brought the camera equipment she had bought in Vienna and set up a small studio on the drying floor .

During the First World War, Suman's husband served on the front lines. The family got into financial difficulties during the Turkish War of Independence . In 1919 Suman was on the verge of selling the family silver to support the family, but then decided to take another solution. She hung a large sign on the front of the house that read “Türk Hanımlar Fotoğrafhanesi - Naciye” (Turkish Women's Photo Studio - Naciye) and thus became the country's first Muslim photographer, an unusual step at a time when women rarely worked. Soon Suman had numerous customers who wanted to send photos of themselves to their husbands on the war front in their letters. In 1921 she gave up the house and moved into a smaller apartment. With the photo studio, she moved into a small studio nearby and in the same year renamed it Kadınlar Dünyası (roughly: The World of Women ) - named after the leading women's magazine of the time. In addition to portraits and wedding photos , Suman also gave lectures on photography at the palace of Sultan Mehmed V. At the end of the war, Suman separated from her husband and lived on the income from her photo studio. In 1930 she became a grandmother and decided to give up her business and move to Ankara with her daughter. In 1934 the Turkish government passed a law that all citizens should have a surname. Naciye Hanım then decided to take the surname Suman .

Suman died in Ankara in 1973. For a long time her photographs were considered lost. However, the collector and author Gülderen Bölük managed to document six postcards with the studio's stamp.

literature

  • Seyit Ali Ak: Erken cumhuriyet dönemi Türk fotoğrafı: 1923–1960 . Remzi Kitabevi, Istanbul 2001, pp. 90-94

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Naciye Suman in the Istanbul Women's Museum (Turkish), accessed on March 24, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Gülderen Bölük: Kızı, Türkiye'nin İlk Kadın Fotoğrafçısı Naciye Suman'ı Anlattı , Yeni Aktüel (Turkish), accessed on March 24, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c Muzaffer Karaaslan Naciye Suman Kim , Feymag, November 9, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Nagihan Şekercioğlu: Naciye Hanım Anısına: Naciye Suman Dosyası , nsekercioglu.com, July 31, 2015
  5. ↑ Collector of Ottoman photographs Gülderen Bölük (Photographer-writer) . In: Swissper . No. 32, 2012, p. 27f
personal data
SURNAME Suman, Naciye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madame Naciye, Naciye Hanım
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Üsküp, today Skopje
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 1973
Place of death Ankara