Çerkes Karadağ - Photographer


	PHOTOGRAPHY ALBUMS NÜANS/NUANCE Fotograflar/Photographs Size: 24.5 X 31.5 cm Publisher: DOST YAYINLARI Photographs by Çerkes Karadag Text by Erhan Karaesmen Design by Çerkes Karadag Çerkes Karadag portrait by Ali Riza Akalin Printing: Pan Matbaacilik ve Yayincilik First published: Ankara, 1989 ISBN 975-7501-00-X Printed in Turkey. 59 Black&White duatone photographs Hardcover, 72 page From the preface... In the nudes of Çerkes there is no blatant advertisement of femininity. However there is no suggestion of coldness either. There is simply a light modesty and a soft womanliness. Perhaps we cannot find in the work of Çerkes the full and statuesque forms of the great master Paul Outerbridge or the strongly extrovert elements of Christian Vogt. But with the aid of elements like the mirror, light and shade delicate compositions are created. A variety stamps and lends individuality to these delicious photographs. The organic as well as lifeless objects that frame the nude form, hair, walls, carpets, chairs all stand out in detail. This characteristic is what lends nuance to the nudes, so to speak. Erhan Karaesmen, April 1989, Ankara. TANIDIGIM YÜZLER FACES I KNOW Siyah-Beyaz Portreler Black&White Portraits Size: 28 X 35 cm Publisher: T.C. KÜLTÜR BAKANLIGI / MINISTRY OF CULTURE Art- Fine Art Series /113-3 Project Editor: Pelin Altay Photographs and Design by Çerkes Karadag Preface by Kaya Özsezgin Text by Çerkes Karadag Translated by Ulus S. Baker Production: Pelin Ofset Tipo Matbaacilik Ltd. Sti. Çerkes Karadag portrait by Sükrü Koç Assistants: Ali Ihsan Koyuncu-Zahir Karadag Preparation for Publication and Print by Ugur Korkmaz- Ramazan Kale Printing: Pelin Ofset Tipo Matbaacilik Bind: Emek-Is First edition: November 1995, Ankara. ISBN 975-17-1558-X Printed in Turkey 250 Black&White tritone photographs Hardcover, 216 page On The Face I know... There is no photographer who never directed his camera to the human face. The passion of taking portrait photos has always given to any photographer the enthusiasm of venturing on the traits of human face. The portrait in fact, is a settling of accounts with regards to time among the photographer and his subject. The image of a person who is frozen at a moment of time is transmitted to other historical times as a specter. Thus, one can read again, each time, the sentiments and thoughts that are transmitted across sections time... Faces; the mirrors of personality, the reflection, of the heart, a colorless look on our identity cards... Faces; sad, enthusiastic, amiable, fatherly, happy... Mocking, fake, hypocrite, angry... Faces; pale, hopeless, indifferent... The construction of faces... BALEYLIM Bale ÜzerineFotografik bir Etüd A Photographic Study of Dance Size: 28 X 35.5 cm Publisher: Doruk Yayincilik Art Publications Series / 5 Project Editor: Ismail Lütfü Erol Photographs and Design by Çerkes Karadag Poem by Yasar Miraç Text by Çerkes Karadag Translated by Ulus S. Baker Colour Seperation: Arti Printing: Pelin Ofset Tipo Matbaacilik First edition: 1997, Ankara. ISBN 975-55317-5-0 Printed in Turkey 60 Black&White and 25 colours photographs hardcover, 116 page Preamble... The art of ballet is an art branch which most combines music, dance, choreography and interaction. The series of photographs constituting the Baleylim photoalbum of the artist is contesting the “rules” of ballet which are often known as boring. Indeed, the photographer concedes that he is more interested in the aesthetics of dancers than in the art of ballet. During is work, the photographer has prefered to pursue the light ondulating on the bodies of ballerinas from behind the scene, imersed in the anaphores of a visual adventure. Individually, as well as in groups, the swan-like elegance of the dancers were expected to render their grace in union with the art of photography, making the dance photos a culmination of the art. BÜYÜLÜ PRAG MAGIC PRAGUE Size: 24.5 X 31.5 cm Sponsored by Is Bankasi Photographs by Çerkes Karadag Text and Reveries by Çerkes Karadag Translated by F. Tuba Geyikler Design by Riza Kaçamak Çerkes Karadag portrait by Firdavsi Feyzullah (Oil on Canvas) Printing: Pelin Ofset Tipo Matbaacilik First published: Ankara, 2000 ISBN 975-96947-0-0 Printed in Turkey 59 Black&White duatone and 43 colour photographs Hardcover, 132 page Prague Reunion... It is not in vain that Prague, with its atmosphere created by the River Vltava dividing the city into two, and with the bridges reminding slender ornaments on the neck of the misty city has been posed in different ways in the works of various artists. This impression is a natural outcome of Prague’s very touching, mysterious setting. So, I think I met two masters of literature, Kafka and Nazim Hikmet in the “same” Prague while I direct my camera to the face of Prague that is affecting me. I have realized their emotions while I was wandering in the same places wher they had once been. How amazing to find the meanings in my photographs both in stranzas crying out with homesickness by Nazim Hikmet and in diaries teeming with chaos by Kafka! Therefore, Prague Magica is not the photographs of being witness to Prague, but also the images of meeting with two masters, namely Kafka and Nazim Hikmet, and the emotions that they had expressed in their writings and diaries at the same altitude. TEN ÖYKÜLERI SKIN STORIES Size: 23 X 31 cm Publisher: Mac Art Gallery Curator: Hakan Çarmikli Photographs by Çerkes Karadag Designed by Reklamci & Çerkes Karadag Text by Çerkes Karadag Translated by Cem Akas Çerkes Karadag portrait by Adnan Polat Colour Seperation by Gönül Erbay Printing: Promat Matbaacilik First edition: February 2006, Istanbul. Printed in Turkey 19 Black&White and 14 colours photographs, 68 page Skin...Stories reflected in photographers. Skin is the face and clothing of the body. Skin is privacy embodied. Skin constitutes a bridge between love and eroticism, love and touch, feeling and sacrifice. Skin is the shame of Adam and Eve. Skin is the forbidden fruit. Skin is the unnamed spell. Skin is the touch of the spirit, the exception made by love. Skin is warm closeness, and unavoidable lure. Skin is an exaltation that feeds on skin itself. Skin is patience, excitement, and medicine. Skin is where love resides. Skin... the story of my photographs. 09 February 2006