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The title of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's first U.S. photography exhibition,'The World of My Father," is both enticing and, in a sense, misleading. It sets up the pieces included here-seven large-format portraits of the filmmaker's father selected from a series of 24, all taken between 2006 and 2008In a line of direct descent from Ceylan's dazzling first two features, In which the director's parents both gave central performances. It's striking, however, how sharply in style and tone Ceylan's photographs diverge from these early films.The former are glossy panoramas with a taste for the dramatic and grand; the latter, patient, immersive tone poems with a special receptivity to the atmosphere of Yen ice, the small North Aegean town where he- like his father-grew up.
Ceylan, who was born in 1959, discovered photography in his early twenties and filmmaking nearly a decade later. The Small Town (97), his first feature, is a study of the rifts within a provincial family much like his own, arranged-like his latest film, Winter Sleep-around a marathon nocturnal conversation. In The Small...