Archival Reading of the Visible and Invisible Images and Traces of (or about) Social Care and Health Care in Bulgaria in the Period 1945 – 1989. Cover Image

Архивен прочит на видими и невидими образи и следи от (или за) социалните грижи и здравеопазването в България в периода 1945 – 1989 г.
Archival Reading of the Visible and Invisible Images and Traces of (or about) Social Care and Health Care in Bulgaria in the Period 1945 – 1989.

Author(s): Mariyana Piskova
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: visual memory and archives; photo documents; photo propaganda; people with disabilities; disadvantaged people; elderly people; children in institutions

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks answers to the question of how the state policy in Bulgaria towards disabled and disadvantaged people, adults, and children in institutions in the years after the Second World War until the end of the 1980s is reflected in the archival photo documents. The study is based on 143,740 descriptions of photo films from the fund of “Bulgarian Photography” stored in the Central State Archive.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 170-188
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian