"A Photo Show on a Pogrom 50 Years Ago Is Itself Attacked by a Mob
By STEVE KETTMANN
Published: September 24, 2005
ISTANBUL - Tucked away for more than 40 years, the 120 black-and-white photographs hanging in a gallery here have the stark appearance and potential emotional impact of evidence presented in a legal proceeding.
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Karsi Gallery
One of the photographs from the Karsi Gallery collection, from 1955.
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And that, it turns out, is what they are.
One image shows a mob outside a row of storefronts, with some people watching passively and others cheering as a shop is ransacked. A young man stands with his half-clenched fist raised in the air, as if he is egging on the vandals; his other hand rests passively on his hip, suggesting nonchalance. A boy stares up numbly, as if looking in vain for answers. Above him, a man in the shell of the shop's wrecked building heaves a baby carriage to the street below."
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