Naslov
19th century Dalmatia inverted in camera: photographic glass plate negatives by Franz Thiard de Laforest

Autori
Gržina, Hrvoje

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Discovering Dalmatia IV / Belamarić, Joško ; Šverko, Ana - Zagreb : Institut za povijest umjetnosti, 2018, 48-49

ISBN
978-953-7875-58-9

Skup
Otkrivanje Dalmacije IV = Discovering Dalmatia IV

Mjesto i datum
Split, Hrvatska, 21.11.2018. - 24.11.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
photography, negatives, Franz Thaird de Laforest, Dalmatia

Sažetak
The activity of the photographer Franz Laforest on the eastern Adriatic coast during the second half of the 19th century is already well known to the academic and professional public. His book Spalato und Seine Alterthümer (Split, 1878) and fragmentarily preserved Album von Dalmatien (Kotor, 1898) are today regarded as commonplaces of the early Croatian photography and valuable sources for studying the history of Dalmatian heritage. However, it is a less known fact that some of his original glass plate negatives are also preserved, as well as a certain number of smaller copy negatives made for various purposes. In addition to providing a unique insight into the appearance of the Dalmatian cities and cultural monuments during the last decades of the 19th century, these objects also serve as a testimony to the development of the photographic technology and various creative techniques that Laforest used in order to present his vision of Dalmatia to the public in the best possible way. Moreover, several motifs can be found on them that have so far been unknown in the positive prints, which supplement the totality of the image on “Laforest’s Dalmatia”. This presentation – based on the research of negatives as objects of material culture generated directly in camera at the real scene, and following the spatiotemporal dynamics of Laforest’s photographic production – will shed a new light on his work. Additionally, the tonal and spatial inversion of the negative image will provide a new glance on the 19th century Dalmatia, on the territory of which this photographer was active for nearly half a century.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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