engleski

Photographic album with a description of His Majesty Emperor and King Francis Joseph I's tour through Dalmatia in 1875

The visit of the Austrian emperor to Dalmatia in 1875 is thoroughly documented in the photographic album named Album svjetlopisni s’ opisovanjem putovanja Nj. Vel. Cesara Kralja Frane Josipa I. kroz Dalmaciu godine 1875. (Photographic album with a description of His Majesty Emperor and King Francis Joseph I's tour through Dalmatia in 1875), published in Zadar in 1876. The authors of the photo album are photographers Nikola Andrović i Josip Marko Goldstein. Considered to be the first photo report in the history of Croatian photography, the album follows the emperor from the province capital Zadar to Vis. The album consists of photographs that are approximately 27 × 19.5 cm in size, and four smaller negative images, with descriptions in Croatian, Italian and German language. Through this valuable photographic material, which primarily aims to follow the emperor’s journey, marginalized and underdeveloped 19th century Dalmatia is presented. The urban landscape depicted in photographs was modified (enhanced) with scenography interventions, such as photography titled Došastje Nj. V. FRANJE JOSIPA I. u Zadar dne 10 aprila 1875., or the emperor's arrival in Split. Both had to be so retouched that at first it seemed to be a drawing, not a photograph. The album is a work of very firm and consistently implemented concept. With a skillful way of recording the ceremonial receptions of the emperor in certain places, pointing to the rich architectural heritage and natural beauty of the Province, it also brings concise historical facts and descriptions and records more permanent changes in urban tissues that testify to the ongoing course of modernization.

photography, album

nije evidentirano