Retrospective and Reinterpretation. Ethnographic Photographs from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
Retrospective and Reinterpretation. Ethnographic Photographs from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
Author(s): Helena BeránkováSubject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Photography, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 19th Century
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: folk culture; photography; Moravia; Slovakia; document; art; studio photographs;
Summary/Abstract: The text deals with ethnographic photographs from Moravia and Slovakia, from 1880 and later, and is based on the photographs´ collection of the Ethnographic Institute of Moravian Museum, Brno (Czech Republic). This rich database contents visual documentation of many aspects of material and spiritual folk life. Through icons of ethnographic photographs, the paper tries: to unite at first sight fragmented effort of photographers, to find paths to synthesis, and to show possibilities and potential of these images for present and future ethnologic studies.
Journal: Гласник Етнографског института САНУ
- Issue Year: LXVI/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 387-402
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English