2 books
Gökhan Akçura is a researcher and author whose cultural histories use advertisements, photographs, performance, cinema, and overlooked objects to recover the texture of everyday life in Istanbul. Essays on the Bosphorus approaches the waterway not as a fixed monument but as a lived setting shaped by travel, entertainment, neighborhoods, and changing habits. The Golden Horn of İstanbul "Haliç" 1993 turns to another defining part of the city, following the social and visual layers gathered around its shores. Together the two works show Akçura's preference for small evidence over grand summary: an image, venue, printed notice, or forgotten custom can open a larger historical scene. Essays on the Bosphorus offers the broader sequence of perspectives, while The Golden Horn of İstanbul "Haliç" 1993 narrows the lens to one urban landscape and its transformations.
