Foto Sabah İngilizce — Engin Özendes

Engin Özendes through her book Photography in the Ottoman Empire 1839 1919 published in 1987 for the first time in the history of world photography has brought to light Sebah Joaillier which is the most significant representative of orientalism in photography Tracing after Sebah Joaillier while she was preparing the book Abdullah Freres Ottoman Court Photographers that we published in 1998 Engin Özendes was able to prepare this new book in the light of purely new findings and documents that emerged as a result of researches she began five years ago From Sebah Joaillier to Foto Sabah Orientalism in Photography is a completed book which does not miss a simple detail a profound source on Sebah Joaillier which has been influential for about a century in the history of both Ottoman and world photography