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Item Chaning conventions of landscape photography in Turkey: from Ara Güler to Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Seçil Yersel(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.) Ergener, Balca.; Ahıska, Meltem.; Baş, Işıl.This thesis aims to investigate the conventions of contemporary landscape photography in Turkey by analyzing selected work by three artists, Ara Güler, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Seçil Yersel and discussing them in the context of the canon of the landscape image, and landscape photography in the international contemporary art scene. A historical account of the landscape image, its historically and culturally specific conditions of emergence in the West, and its relationship with traveling and tourism is provided. Landscape is studied as a specific kind of relationship between humans and the physical world, which entails a distant viewer, looking and visually framing a physical environment rather than participating in it; and the transformation of a physical environment composed of multiple multi-sensory elements into a coherent, aesthetic object to be visually consumed. Ceylan’s and Yersel’s photographs make the distance and alienation intrinsic both to the notion of landscape and the practice of photography visible. Ara Güler’s proximity to his subjects, his engagement with documenting the contingent experiences of people specific to places and times and capturing fleeting moments result in fragmentary compositions of dynamic and inhabited landscapes transformed by and with people. Ceylan and Yersel’s distance to their subjects resulting in wide and exhaustive views that resemble paintings more than photographs because they are static and closed compositions resist appropriation and presenting ready meanings.Item "The Entel" representations of a degenerated intellectual figure in cartoon strips(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.) Öperli, Nadir.; Ahıska, Meltem.; Baş, Işıl.This thesis tries to understand the emergence of the entel type, a caricature of intellectuals which became popular around the mid 80's in various Turkish cartoon magazines and newspapers. It is not an all encompassing research about cartoons that figured the entel type. Rather, it uses a collection of such cartoons to illustrate a trend that mocked and deprivileged intellectuals during this period, and tries to understand why and how the entel type has become so popular specifically during the mid 80's. Of course, such an endeavor necessitates contemplating on the changing mind sets and cultural climate of the era, as well as an overview of the parallel receptions of intellectuals in the Turkish historical context, which are the two essential issues dealt within this study.It is possible to claim that the entel figure has emerged as an extension of the intellectual-people opposition, the origins of which go back to the Tanzimat era. However, the entel has its peculiar characteristics which make him/her a representative figure of the mood of the post-80's era. In this study, the entel is analyzed first in terms of iconography, gender, and life style. The entel's adventures within the city venues, his/her encounters with other nascent urban figures are also discussed as well as his/her mood that is saturated with a feeling of melancholia and cynicism.