The first photographers in Istanbul immediately after the invention of photography...

The story of how Istanbul became a Middie Eastern center of photographs and photography...
The spread of photography from Istanbul eastward all the way to the Far East...

Contantinople's famous and magnificent photography studios...

The interest Ottoman sultans showed in photographs and the art of photography...

Photographers of Constantinople presents the early relationship of love-at-first-sight between the city of Istanbul and the art of photography-an account illustrated with hundreds of sometimes astonishing photographs the majority of which have never been published before.