Photograph of a young boy no. 11
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Nicosia, Aziz Damdelen
Ahmet Şevki, in Nicosia
Code:
72
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
Studio photograph taken by Ahmet Şevki, in Nicosia. A young boy is sitting on a chair of Viennese type. He is wearing a three-piece suit of European style, made of English striped cashmere. A white gömlek (shirt) and a tie are to be seen under the waistcoat. He wears European shoes tied with laces, and çorap (stockings). On his head he wears an Ottoman fes (fez, turk. Osmanlı fesi). The photograph dates to about 1918.
Bibliography:
Rizopoulou - Egoumenidou, E. and Aziz Damdelen, 2012, Turkish Cypriot dress The Aziz Damdelen Collection, Nicosia, 121. Kaba, K. 2007, Ahmet, İsmet Şevki. The First Ever Cypriot Photographers, Nicosia.
References/Remarks:
The date 1918 can be concluded from the fact that the photographer originally used his courtyard as a studio and moved it to the hall of his house in 1917 (Kaba 2007, 59-60). In 1923 he left for Antalya because, according to the Lausanne treaty, if he had stayed in Cyprus, he would become a British subject (Kaba 2007, 92).