Reflections Ecole and Style Issues of Turkish Photography to Photography Education

Abstract

Photography adopted very quickly from the second half of the 19th century in Ottoman Empire. However, it was settled as an institutionally in the context of a university or an art ecole from the late of 1970's. Throught the period until today, intermittents and the problematic progress of ecole and style concepts in the sense of both individual and institutional manners affected the photography education. The reasons of these intermittents are other crucial concepts should be examined in economic, political, cultural and artistic senses. Photography education institutions, which are established in this context, created their education programs within the framework of either modern western ecoles or current trends. This study examines the reflections of Turkish photography attitude to photography education, which is still immature or has not a particular ecole or style, for some related institutions.