{"product_id":"9781597110341","title":"Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIstanbul: City of a Hundred Names\u003c\/i\u003e, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past—a city of minarets and pigeons rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to Muslim prayers—yet also a city riddled with ATM machines and clothed in designer jeans. Webb began photographing Istanbul in 1998, and became instantly enthralled: by the people, the layers of culture and history, the richness of street life. But what particularly drew him in was a sense of Istanbul as a border city, lying between Europe and Asia. \"For 30-some years as a photographer, I have been intrigued by borders, places where cultures come together, sometimes easily, sometimes roughly.\" The resulting body of work, some of Webb's strongest to date, conveys the frisson of a culture in transition, yet firmly rooted in a complex history. With essay by the Nobel Prize winning novelist, Orhan Pamuk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031470063856,"sku":"9781597110341","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781597110341_p0.jpg?v=1763815600","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781597110341","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}