Özet:

The photographs are quite often used in belief of transferring reality for propaganda purposes. Particularly photomontages are preferred since they are achieved easily and they are minimizing the necessity of text as they are efficient work of art that could transferring messages. İrfan Demirkol is one of the representative photographer who intended to tranfer his ideas by using photomontage in the ideological and political atmosphere of Turkey in 1970’s. In the history of Turkish photography, 1970’s were the period where many photography associations were opened, understanding of social documentary photography were forming associations and were the years that ideological positioning was revealed in photography. In this period, photomontages, documentary photographs, exhibition posters and manifestos produced by Demirkol, raised consciousness among masses and were effective in spreading his own leftist ideology