Пейзажът в българската фотография от 60-те години на ХХ век
Landscape in Bulgarian Photography of the 1960s

Summary/Abstract: Landscapes gradually vanished from Bulgarian photography after 1945. Photojournalism became the sole ‘official’ genre, acknowledged and tolerated by the authorities. Photographs featuring nature’s beauty were denounced as ‘formalism’ for failing to meet the major requirement of communist art: a dynamic subject. For this reason such pictures were replaced with representations of agricultural activities, machines at work, constructions. As late as the 1960s critical re-evaluation of photographic images underwent an essential change, and from document and ‘visual propaganda’ they became artworks, a way of not just representing but also of interpreting reality. In the new political and cultural environment, photographers took more often to landscapes in the quest of what is ‘typically Bulgarian and native’. The paper draws attention to the problems concomitant with these processes.

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