Photojournalist, a book by Nezih Tavlas, provides a compelling and in-depth look into the life of Ara Güler who was regarded as one of the most accomplished documentary photographers of the 20th century and the pioneer of photojournalism in Turkey. The book lists all of Guler’s professional accomplishments while also providing rare insight into his personal life and his photographic legacy amounts to over two million stories told. Born into a Turkish-Armenian family in Istanbul in 1928, Ara Güler who has been given the nickname, "The Eye of Istanbul" and also described as “one of the most important living representatives of creative photography today.” Güler’s photographic work started being published in the late 1950s and early 1960s; his work has been displayed at many of the world’s major art centers, including New York, London and Paris. He has published many books on his work and is the recipient of many awards and honors. Many examples of Güler’s photographic work are to be found in institutions such as the French National Library in Paris and the Sheldon Collection at Nebraska University, as well as in private collections in Boston, Chicago and New York. His photographs are also displayed at the Ludwig Museum and at Das Imaginare Photo-Museum, both in Cologne.Güler’s international reputation is well-established after spending nearly 60 years in journalism, starting in 1950, from where he went on to become a photojournalist for Time-Life in 1956 and for Paris Match and Stern in 1958. Around the same time, he joined the Magnum Agency. The British Journal of Photography Year Book published in the U.K. in 1968 named Güler as one of the seven best photographers in the world. In 1962, he received the Leica Master award in Germany and French Legion of Honor.Ara Güler, arguably Turkey’s most eminent photographer, impressively portrayed life in the city of Istanbul, his birthplace and home, for over 60 years. He was world famous for his incomparable black-and-white images of the metropolis on the shores of the Bosporus from the 1950s and 1960s. Ara Güler, (1928-2018), was also well known for his work as a reporter and photojournalist covering political affairs around the world and for his photographic interviews with many prominent politicians and artists of the period, from Ansel Adams, Louis Aragon, John Berger, Willy Brandt, Erskine Caldwell, Maria Callas, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marc Chagall, Winston Churchill, Imogen Cunningham, Salvador Dali, Federico Fellini, Indira Gandhi, Alfred Hitchcock, Dustin Hoffman, Danny Kaye, Elia Kazan, Aram Khachaturian, Josef Koudelka, Sophia Loren, Henry Luce, Arthur Miller, Vincente Minelli, Aristotle Onassis, Pablo Picasso, Jean Renoir, Marc Riboud, Bertrand Russell, Sebastiao Salgado, William Saroyan, Mother Teresa, Arnold Toynbee, John Updike, Orson Welles and Tennessee Williams. "Journalist Nezih Tavlas's book Photojournalist details Ara Güler's life, by providing chronological details starting from the day he was born up until now, and also includes dialogue with Guler as well as photographs from his family albums" Magnum Consortium "You will hold your breath as you read the incredible tales of Ara Guler's life as he ran after wars, coups, civilizations, disasters and people which changed the fate of the world. These pages bear witness to the efforts and the price Master Ara Guler ended up paying to be able to be in the right place at the right time..." The Eye of Photography Magazine "In a homonymous book with a foreword by his friend and colleague Nezih Tavlas, the Armenian "proudly Turkish", as Ara describes himself, sighs: "Photojournalists are those who go after the bomb when it is about to explode; the ones who run towards death and risk their lives. Photojournalists write the story with the camera." LER Magazine "We are pleased to announce that the valuable work called"Photojournalist- Life Story of Ara Guler" manifested through thediligent comprehensive approach and qualified penmanship of Nezih Tavlas and which portrays the exemplary artistry and inspirational struggle of survival of Ara Guler who is our internationally renown master ofobservation and the objective has been selected BOOK OF THE MONTH and we would like to extend our gratitude to Ara Güler, our great artist formany more years." The Board of PEN International Turkey The godfather of Turkish photography: Ara Guler. Profile of Turkey's legendary photographer Ara Guler, also known as Istanbul's Eye."Guler always wanted to be a playwright," wrote, Nezih Tavlas in a biography on Guler called "Photojournalist." Anatolian News Agency "The book lists all of Guler's professional accomplishments while also providing rare insight into his personal life and his photographic legacy amounts to over two million stories told." Book of The Month Club During the time that  I was writing Ara Guler's biography I spent more than 3 years (2007-2009) with him. Initially, he was irritated by being the