Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories
by Rebecca Topakian
Photographs: Rebecca Topakian
Text: Karim Kattan
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
120 pages
Pictures: 57
Year: 2024
ISBN: 978-83-965969-4-9
Price: 68.50 €
Comments: Book design: Aneta Kowalczyk. Photo editing: Aneta Kowalczyk, Grzegorz Kosmala and Rebecca Topakian Image processing: Aneta Kowalczyk. Softcover, Refit Wool Blue 250g, with hot stamping Papers: Munken Pure 150g, transparent paper. Format: 165x226 mm. Language versions: English, French and Armenian
"Rebecca Topakian’s Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories masterfully blurs the lines between personal history and myth. Through a poignant dialogue between Armenia’s past and present, Topakian overlays images on transparent paper, symbolically merging history with contemporary landscapes. This work offers a profound exploration of love intersecting with complex histories."
- Dr Taous Dahmani for Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award
Once upon a time, in distant Constantinople, there lived Hadji Garabet Kevork Topakian, a well-known and respected producer of basturma, considered by many to be the best in the city. Garabet led a lonely life until one day he fell deeply in love with the beautiful and young Gulizar, who - to his joy - reciprocated his feeling. They were an adorable couple.
Unfortunately, their love was opposed by Gulizar's parents, for whom Garabet was too boorish. Unable to come to terms with the loss of his beloved, one frosty night he snuck on horseback to her bedroom window. Without hesitating for long, Gulizar threw herself into her lover's arms and together they left for Constantinople to get married and live happily ever after. Distant Ararat, illuminated by moonlight, was the only witness to this kidnapping…
For Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories, Rebecca Topakian’s starting point is the unique story of her Armenian family, who lived in Turkey before her grandfather emigrated to France. This story is the love of her great-grandparents - Garabed and Gulizar.
Topakian explored this part of her identity by choosing fiction and mythology. Bearing the love story of her ancestors in mind while she traveled and lived in Armenia, desire became the thread of this project: it is a desire for earth, ground, identity, but also for the other’s body acting almost as a mirror.
The book includes her own pictures mixed with her family archives, establishing a link between past and present. And the photographs printed on transparent paper symbolically put her great-grandparents back to the land they belong to, offering an intimate and impressionistic portrait of Armenia.
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Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories
by Rebecca Topakian
Photographs: Rebecca Topakian
Text: Karim Kattan
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
120 pages
Pictures: 57
Year: 2024
ISBN: 978-83-965969-4-9
Price: 68.50 €
Comments: Book design: Aneta Kowalczyk. Photo editing: Aneta Kowalczyk, Grzegorz Kosmala and Rebecca Topakian Image processing: Aneta Kowalczyk. Softcover, Refit Wool Blue 250g, with hot stamping Papers: Munken Pure 150g, transparent paper. Format: 165x226 mm. Language versions: English, French and Armenian
"Rebecca Topakian’s Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories masterfully blurs the lines between personal history and myth. Through a poignant dialogue between Armenia’s past and present, Topakian overlays images on transparent paper, symbolically merging history with contemporary landscapes. This work offers a profound exploration of love intersecting with complex histories."
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Once upon a time, in distant Constantinople, there lived Hadji Garabet Kevork Topakian, a well-known and respected producer of basturma, considered by many to be the best in the city. Garabet led a lonely life until one day he fell deeply in love with the beautiful and young Gulizar, who - to his joy - reciprocated his feeling. They were an adorable couple.
Unfortunately, their love was opposed by Gulizar's parents, for whom Garabet was too boorish. Unable to come to terms with the loss of his beloved, one frosty night he snuck on horseback to her bedroom window. Without hesitating for long, Gulizar threw herself into her lover's arms and together they left for Constantinople to get married and live happily ever after. Distant Ararat, illuminated by moonlight, was the only witness to this kidnapping…
For Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories, Rebecca Topakian’s starting point is the unique story of her Armenian family, who lived in Turkey before her grandfather emigrated to France. This story is the love of her great-grandparents - Garabed and Gulizar.
Topakian explored this part of her identity by choosing fiction and mythology. Bearing the love story of her ancestors in mind while she traveled and lived in Armenia, desire became the thread of this project: it is a desire for earth, ground, identity, but also for the other’s body acting almost as a mirror.
The book includes her own pictures mixed with her family archives, establishing a link between past and present. And the photographs printed on transparent paper symbolically put her great-grandparents back to the land they belong to, offering an intimate and impressionistic portrait of Armenia.
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Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories
by Rebecca Topakian
Photographs: Rebecca Topakian
Text: Karim Kattan
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
120 pages
Pictures: 57
Year: 2024
ISBN: 978-83-965969-4-9
Price: 68.50 €
Comments: Book design: Aneta Kowalczyk. Photo editing: Aneta Kowalczyk, Grzegorz Kosmala and Rebecca Topakian Image processing: Aneta Kowalczyk. Softcover, Refit Wool Blue 250g, with hot stamping Papers: Munken Pure 150g, transparent paper. Format: 165x226 mm. Language versions: English, French and Armenian
"Rebecca Topakian’s Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories masterfully blurs the lines between personal history and myth. Through a poignant dialogue between Armenia’s past and present, Topakian overlays images on transparent paper, symbolically merging history with contemporary landscapes. This work offers a profound exploration of love intersecting with complex histories."
- Dr Taous Dahmani for Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award
Once upon a time, in distant Constantinople, there lived Hadji Garabet Kevork Topakian, a well-known and respected producer of basturma, considered by many to be the best in the city. Garabet led a lonely life until one day he fell deeply in love with the beautiful and young Gulizar, who - to his joy - reciprocated his feeling. They were an adorable couple.
Unfortunately, their love was opposed by Gulizar's parents, for whom Garabet was too boorish. Unable to come to terms with the loss of his beloved, one frosty night he snuck on horseback to her bedroom window. Without hesitating for long, Gulizar threw herself into her lover's arms and together they left for Constantinople to get married and live happily ever after. Distant Ararat, illuminated by moonlight, was the only witness to this kidnapping…
For Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories, Rebecca Topakian’s starting point is the unique story of her Armenian family, who lived in Turkey before her grandfather emigrated to France. This story is the love of her great-grandparents - Garabed and Gulizar.
Topakian explored this part of her identity by choosing fiction and mythology. Bearing the love story of her ancestors in mind while she traveled and lived in Armenia, desire became the thread of this project: it is a desire for earth, ground, identity, but also for the other’s body acting almost as a mirror.
The book includes her own pictures mixed with her family archives, establishing a link between past and present. And the photographs printed on transparent paper symbolically put her great-grandparents back to the land they belong to, offering an intimate and impressionistic portrait of Armenia.
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The Need to Know (signed)
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