{"product_id":"orhan-pamuk-balkon","title":"Orhan Pamuk: Balkon","description":"In the winter of 2011 Nobel-Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan  Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its  panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old  town, the Asian and European sides of the city, the surrounding hills,  and the distant islands and mountains. Sometimes he would leave his  writing desk and follow the movements of the boats as they passed in  front of his apartment and sailed far away.\n\nAs Pamuk obsessively created these images he felt his desire to do  so was related to a strange particular mood he was experiencing. He  photographed further and began to think about what was happening  to himself: Why was he taking these photos? How are seeing and  photography related? What is the affinity between writing and seeing?  Why do we enjoy looking at landscapes and landscape photographs?  Balkon  presents almost 500 of these photos selected by Pamuk, who  has also co-designed the book and written its introduction.\n\n'There is genius in Pamuk's madness.' -Umberto Eco","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664593948708,"sku":"9783958293991","price":65.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783958293991.jpg?v=1777358447","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/orhan-pamuk-balkon","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}