Hayal & Hakikat - A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment
| Author | Cemre Yeşil Gönenli |
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| Publisher | Fraglich Publishing |
| ISBN | 9783950506426 |
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| Status | not yet published |
Hayal & Hakikat features photographs of 20th-century prisoners taken from the photo albums of Sultan Abdulhamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Among Abdulhamid II’s many interests were detective novels and crime fiction. In the 25th year of his reign, he ordered all murder convicts to be photographed with their hands visible, in preparation for a planned amnesty. He had been influenced by a pseudo-scientific claim he had read in a crime novel: that “any criminal with a thumb joint longer than the index finger joint is inclined to murder.” As a result, the photographs in this book include the subjects’ hands for the purpose of classification. The first edition of Hayal & Hakikat won the ‘Best International Photobook of the Year’ award at PHotoESPAÑA 2021. It was also a finalist at the 2020 Paris Photo–Aperture Photobook Awards, the 2021 Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards, and the 2022 Singapore International Photography Festival, and was longlisted for the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photobook Awards.
| 240 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, hb, English |
Fraglich Publishing
