Ahmet Ertuğ (born 1949) is a fine art photographer and

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based in

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. He was trained as an architect at the

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in London, from where he graduated in 1974. He specializes in large format photography of architectural and archaeological edifices of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods in the

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. With Ahmet Kocabıyık he founded Ertuğ & Kocabıyık: Publishers of Fine Art Books. Ahmet Ertuğ's photographs were published in a series of 25 volumes. In 2009 Ahmet Ertuğ photographed 30 historical libraries in Europe. He developed the volume ''Temples of Knowledge: Libraries of the Western World'' from these photographs. His latest photographic project documenting the architecture of grand opera houses has been published under the title ''Palaces of Music: Opera Houses of Europe'' in December 2010, text written by Michael Forsyth.
In 2012 the tome ''Gods of Nemrud: The Royal Sanctuary of Antiochos & the Kingdom of Commagene'' followed. It deals with the archaeological material from

Commagene Commagene () was an ancient Greco-Iranian kingdom ruled by a Hellenized branch of the Orontid dynasty, Orontids, a dynasty of Iranian peoples, Iranian origin, that had ruled over the Satrapy of Armenia. The kingdom was located in and around the ...

of the first century BC connected to the local kingdom of

Antiochus I Antiochus I Soter (, ''Antíochos Sōtér''; "Antiochus the Savior"; 2 June 261 BC) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus succeeded his father Seleucus I Nicator in 281 BC and reigned during a period of instability which he mostly ...

. Text contributed by R.R.R. Smith. He uses

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equipment and 20 x 25 cm film material, also high resolution

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s in specific locations. All

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volumes are printed and bound manually in Italy and Switzerland. All books of Ahmet Ertuğ have been published in

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and larger formats.

Selected works

* ''Silks for the Sultans: Ottoman Imperial Garments from Topkapi Palace'' (1996) * ''

Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia (; ; ; ; ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (; ), is a mosque and former Church (building), church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively ...

: A Vision for Empires''; text by

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(1997) * ''Gardens of Paradise:16th Century Turkish Ceramic Tile Decoration''; text by Walter Denny (1997) * '' Sinan: an Architectural Genius''; text by

Doğan Kuban Doğan Kuban (10 April 1926 – 22 September 2021) was a Turkish architectural historian. Biography Kuban was born in Paris. He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Shortly thereafter he start ...

(1999) * ''Anatolian Carpets: Masterpieces from the

Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum () is a museum in Sultanahmet Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey which first opened in 1914 and in 1983 moved into the palace of Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, the second grand vizier of Suleiman the Magni ...

, Istanbul''; text by Walter Denny & Nacan Olcer (1999) * ''Chora: The Scrolls of Heaven''; text by Cyril Mango (2000) * ''Sculptured for Eternity: Treasures of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Art from the

Istanbul Archaeological Museum The Istanbul Archaeology Museums () are a group of three archaeological museums located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, near Gülhane Park and Topkapı Palace. These museums house over one million objects from nearly all periods an ...

''; text by R.R.R. Smith (2001) * ''Spirituel Journey: Sacred Art From

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''; texts written by the curators of the museum (2004) * ''Sacred Art of

Cappadocia Cappadocia (; , from ) is a historical region in Central Anatolia region, Turkey. It is largely in the provinces of Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray, Kırşehir, Sivas and Niğde. Today, the touristic Cappadocia Region is located in Nevşehir ...

: Byzantine murals from the 6th to 13th Centuries''; text by Catherine-Jolivet Levy (2006) * ''

Ephesos Ephesus (; ; ; may ultimately derive from ) was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, in present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of Apasa, the former Arzawan capital ...

: Architecture, Monuments and Sculpture''; text written by members of the Archaeological Institute of Austria (2007) * ''

Aphrodisias Aphrodisias (; ) was a Hellenistic Greek city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Asia Minor, today's Anatolia in Turkey. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, about east/inland from the coast of the Aegean Sea, and s ...

: Roman Asian Architecture, Monuments and Sculpture''; text by R.R.R.Smith, director of excavations in Aphrodisias (2008) * ''Temples of Knowledge: Libraries of the Western World''; text by Friedrich Krizinger (2009) * ''Palaces of Music; Opera Houses of Europe''; texts by Michael Forsyth and Rolf Sachsse *''Gods of Nemrud: The Royal Sanctuary of Antiochos & the Kingdom of Commagene''; text by R.R.R. Smith

Permanent exhibitions

Ahmet Ertuğ's Hagia Sophia photographs can be viewed in the upper northern gallery of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul as a permanent exhibition.Index of Ahmet Ertuğ'
exhibitions.
The Ephesos Museum, located in the

Hofburg Palace The Hofburg () is the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. Located in the center of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century by Ottokar II of Bohemia and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the im ...

in Vienna, Austria, also permanently displays his works on the subject Information about the Ephesus exhibition
Kunsthistorisches Museum
, Vienna 2009

References

External links

Website of Ahmet Ertuğ
with picture galleries
Ahmet Ertuğ's books in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA

Ahmet Ertuğ's books in the British Library, London, United Kingdom

Video clips about Ahmet Ertuğ and his work
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ertug, Ahmet Photographers from Istanbul 1949 births Living people Fine art photographers