Prosperity, Loss, and Survival: A Photographic Journey from the Dildilian Family Archive

Prosperity, Loss, and Survival: A Photographic Journey from the Dildilian Family Archive
March 17 – May 6, 2018
Opening: Saturday March 17, 5-8 pm
Lecture: Marianne Hirsch, 7 pm
“Forty Days and More: Connective Histories”

Curators:
Armen T. Marsoobian | Isin Önol

Downtown Central Library
ReflectSpace Gallery | PassageWay
222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA 91205

Prosperity, Loss, and Survival: A Photographic Journey from the Dildilian Family Archive, in the PassageWay, is an exhibition that employs family memoirs and historic photographs from the Dildilians, a family of renowned Armenian photographers. This unique photographic collection was gathered by the Dildilian family in Ottoman Turkey over a 34-year period and miraculously made the passage through the Genocide intact. There are well over 1000 photographs and glass negatives in the collection that testify to the cultural, educational and commercial achievements of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

An extensive exhibition based upon the Dildilian family archive, Continuity and Rupture: An Armenian Family Odyssey, will open to public at the Glendale Brand Art Center on March 24 at 6 pm. Continuity and Rupture is co-curated by Armen T. Marsoobian and by Isin Onol.

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