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The History of Serbian Photography

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The History of Serbian Photography examines the development, evolution, and cultural significance of photographic practices in Serbia from its inception in the 19th century to contemporary times, exploring the influence of social, political, and artistic movements on the medium and its role in documenting Serbian identity and heritage.
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The History of Serbian Photography examines the development, evolution, and cultural significance of photographic practices in Serbia from its inception in the 19th century to contemporary times, exploring the influence of social, political, and artistic movements on the medium and its role in documenting Serbian identity and heritage.

Key research themes

1. How did early Serbian photographers contribute to the development and national identity of photography in the region during the 19th century?

This theme investigates the pioneering role of early Serbian photographers who introduced and established photography in Serbia and the surrounding regions during the 19th century. It focuses on the technical, cultural, and socio-political contributions of these photographers amidst the broader context of national revival, urban modernization, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s influence. Understanding these origins is essential for tracing the roots of Serbian photographic traditions and their interplay with identity formation.

Key finding: Franjo Pommer, an early 19th-century photographer of Serbian origin, was documented as Zagreb’s first resident professional photographer whose work from the 1850s included portraits of prominent Croatian cultural figures. His... Read more
Key finding: Anastas Jovanović, a Serbian photographer based in Vienna, produced some of the earliest preserved paper photographs in Slovak collections dating to around 1849. His portraits of Slovak national revival leaders not only... Read more
Key finding: Marko Stojanović, a prominent Serbian legal official and amateur photographer active after Serbia's independence in 1878, created a substantial photographic record illustrating urban life and social stratification in... Read more
Key finding: Nadežda Petrović, a seminal Serbian modern painter and nationalist activist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, also made pioneering photographic works employing pictorialist aesthetics. Her photography—ranging from... Read more

2. What role did photographic discourse and criticism play in shaping the understanding and institutionalization of photography in the former Yugoslav and Croatian cultural sphere?

This theme centers on the emergence and evolution of photography criticism, theory, and historiography in Croatia and Yugoslavia from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. It examines how debates on photography’s artistic status, the professional-amateur dichotomy, and nationalistic versus social themes informed the formation of photography as both an art form and a cultural practice. These discourses helped define the aesthetics, values, and audience of photographic culture in Serbia's neighboring regions, providing a comparative framework for understanding Serbian photography's historical development.

Key finding: An extensive analysis of critical writings about photography in Yugoslav (mostly Croatian) periodicals reveals a transition from initial perceptions of photography as a mechanical reproduction to its acceptance as an art form... Read more
Key finding: By compiling and critically reading several hundred articles on photography from early 20th century Croatian periodicals, this study charts the discourse’s gradual sophistication from textual notices to more theoretical and... Read more
Key finding: This work traces the establishment and early activities (1893-1898) of the Zagreb Amateur Photographers’ Club, which played a pivotal role in fostering organized amateur photographic practice in Croatia. Supported by artistic... Read more

3. How did the socio-political context of Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia influence the development of photographic styles and practices from the mid-20th century to the 1980s?

This theme explores the impact of political regimes, ideological shifts, and social dynamics on photographic production, dissemination, and aesthetics within Yugoslavia and the broader Eastern European region including Czechoslovakia and Slovakia. It focuses on concepts such as political emancipation through visualism, conceptual art strategies under repression, gender hierarchies in photographic recognition, and the role of photography as socio-political commentary or documentation. This area is crucial to understanding transitional and modern photographic movements that shaped Serbian photography’s later evolution in the 20th century.

Key finding: Analyzing the period of normalization in Czechoslovakia, this article identifies how photographers like Andreas Muller-Pohle, Borek Sousedik, and Jerzy Olek developed 'visualism'—a subjective photographic style that resisted... Read more
Key finding: This paper documents the under-recognized contributions and gradual emergence of women photographers in Yugoslavia during the 1970s amidst persistent gender hierarchies. It highlights the concentration of women in ateliers,... Read more
Key finding: This PhD thesis employs social history and semiotic analysis methodologies to demonstrate how the political climate from 1968 to 1989 'normalisation' shaped the production, style, distribution, and institutional conditions of... Read more
Key finding: This study explains how the cultural acceptance of conceptual art, performance, and happenings in early 1970s Croatia expanded photography’s function beyond representational documentation to experimental, communicative, and... Read more

All papers in The History of Serbian Photography

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Први српски устанак је од краја 1806. године и уласка Русије у рат са Османским царством прерастао у коaлациони рат Русије и Србије против Османског царства. Прве заједничке борбе нових савезника против Османлија вођене су у источној... more
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Рад представља осврт на дуборез двери патријарха Антонија Соколовића из Дечана и анализу њиховог сликарства. На лицу двери насликане су Благовести, док се на полеђини налазе фигуре Светог краља Стефана Дечанског и Светог Николе. Циљ рада... more
This paper presents a model for mapping fl ooded areas on the example of the Sana River. The input data, which is used for the data processing model, is represented by satellite images obtained from a radar platform called Sentinel 1, by... more
Рад са дигиталним фотографијама је другачији техничко-технолошки процес од рада с филмом и емулзијом и у установама очувања културног наслеђа захтева потпуно нов приступ да би се поштовала постојећа законска регулатива, али и да би се... more
This essay looks into the very beginnings of paper photography in the Austrian Empire. It focuses on two salted paper portraits of two most iconic figures of the Slovak National Revival in the mid-19th century, Ľudovít Štúr and Jozef M.... more
Marko Stojanović (Serbian: Марко Стојановић) was the most influential legal representative of the Privileged National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia (now the National Bank of Serbia) and its Vice Governor. He was a renowned Belgrade... more
Путем породичних и архивских докумената, чланака из штампе, фотографија и сведочења појединаца, музејских предмета и музејске грађе, рад реконструише биографске податке првих трстеничких фотографа. Истраживање се бави и најстаријим... more
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The borders of the Roman Empire (Roman Limes) have been recognized as a unique cultural monument, which is a part of the UNESCO’s world heritage (Frontiers of the Roman Empire – UNESCO World Heritage Sites). The Roman Limes represents the... more
Апстракт: У раду се описује структура историјско-археолошког географског информационог система у који се похрањују подаци са истраживања Царичиног града и његове шире околине. ИАГИС Царичиног града садржи веома бројне податке, који потичу... more
Извод Поплаве су хидролошке појаве које представљају једну од највећих природних непогода. Одликују се неуобичајно високим водостајeм, протоком или запремином воде, у кратком временском периоду. Ради очувања екосистема и природне... more
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Успомени на Миодрага Грбића и Александра Дерока, пионире аерофотографије у нашој археологији Апстракт: У раду се описују досадашњи резултати примене аерофотографије у нашој археологији, од самих почетака из 30-их година прошлог века, када... more
Аутор: Љубица Здравковић
The aerial photographic research in Serbian archaeology had a promising beginning, but its subsequent development has been rather slow and limited in scope. The stereoscopic analysis of air photographs is rarely resorted to and the same... more
Текст говори о положају муслиманског становништва Шапца, посматрајући период од првог хатишерифа из 1830. године, којим је покренуто питање њиховог одласка из Србије, па до 1867. године када је овај процес завршен. Рад се бави пореклом... more
Доц. др Иван Несторов, дипл. геод. инж. Југослав Бељин, дипл. геод. инж Небојша Мартиновић, дипл. геод. инж.
Milanka Todic, The History of Serbian Photography 1839-1940 pp. 195
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