Belgrade Jews and the medium of photography: community transition and its private public memory
Апстракт
The creation of photography as the new medium during the midXIX century and its rapid development provided Jews with the ability to
accept the new form of personal and public representation, but also the
ability of communicating through this medium. The new form of pictorial
representation was problematic from the aspect of tradition, primarily due
to the ban on creating images as such, while at the same time it was also
understood as a challenge to personal modesty as a desirable public virtue.
Photography was a powerful tool of the anti-Semitic propaganda which
used it to disseminate stereotypes about “a dangerous racial type”. Despite
this kind of a reception, a vast number of photographs, private, family and
public, ceremonial ones, can be distinguished which memorized the life of
the Jewish community and individuals in Belgrade.
The presence of Jews in Belgrade was previously noted by numerous
pieces of travel literature and also by engravings and paintings, however,
...
the thing that conveys moments of community’s existence trapped in time
in almost a documentary way were photographs created out of the need
of community itself, and of its members. The observed photographs are
a relection of changes through which the community and its members
went, gradually replacing one way of living and organization, more Ottoman
in its character, with a new civil one, modeled after Central Europe. The
photographs where the community is gathered show a gradual maturing
and social shaping of its institutions which took their inal shape in the
interwar period. The varied photographic material is a testimony of the
life of Jewish community in Belgrade and the process of its integration
and emancipation, recorded from the second half of XIX century until the
tragedy of the Holocaust. The advantages of photography as a modern
medium and its ability to memorize a moment in time were placed before
traditional beliefs which in turn made the emancipation more obvious.
Кључне речи:
photography / mid XIX century / Jewish community and individuals in BelgradeИзвор:
Abstracts of papers International Conference Creating Memories in Early Modern and Modern Art and Literature, 2017, 21-21Издавач:
- Belgrade : Faculty of Philosophy, 2017
Институција/група
Istorija umetnosti / History of ArtTY - CONF AU - Dautović, Vuk PY - 2017 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/6118 AB - The creation of photography as the new medium during the midXIX century and its rapid development provided Jews with the ability to accept the new form of personal and public representation, but also the ability of communicating through this medium. The new form of pictorial representation was problematic from the aspect of tradition, primarily due to the ban on creating images as such, while at the same time it was also understood as a challenge to personal modesty as a desirable public virtue. Photography was a powerful tool of the anti-Semitic propaganda which used it to disseminate stereotypes about “a dangerous racial type”. Despite this kind of a reception, a vast number of photographs, private, family and public, ceremonial ones, can be distinguished which memorized the life of the Jewish community and individuals in Belgrade. The presence of Jews in Belgrade was previously noted by numerous pieces of travel literature and also by engravings and paintings, however, the thing that conveys moments of community’s existence trapped in time in almost a documentary way were photographs created out of the need of community itself, and of its members. The observed photographs are a relection of changes through which the community and its members went, gradually replacing one way of living and organization, more Ottoman in its character, with a new civil one, modeled after Central Europe. The photographs where the community is gathered show a gradual maturing and social shaping of its institutions which took their inal shape in the interwar period. The varied photographic material is a testimony of the life of Jewish community in Belgrade and the process of its integration and emancipation, recorded from the second half of XIX century until the tragedy of the Holocaust. The advantages of photography as a modern medium and its ability to memorize a moment in time were placed before traditional beliefs which in turn made the emancipation more obvious. PB - Belgrade : Faculty of Philosophy, 2017 C3 - Abstracts of papers International Conference Creating Memories in Early Modern and Modern Art and Literature T1 - Belgrade Jews and the medium of photography: community transition and its private public memory EP - 21 SP - 21 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6118 ER -
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Dautović, V.. (2017). Belgrade Jews and the medium of photography: community transition and its private public memory. in Abstracts of papers International Conference Creating Memories in Early Modern and Modern Art and Literature Belgrade : Faculty of Philosophy, 2017., 21-21. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6118
Dautović V. Belgrade Jews and the medium of photography: community transition and its private public memory. in Abstracts of papers International Conference Creating Memories in Early Modern and Modern Art and Literature. 2017;:21-21. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6118 .
Dautović, Vuk, "Belgrade Jews and the medium of photography: community transition and its private public memory" in Abstracts of papers International Conference Creating Memories in Early Modern and Modern Art and Literature (2017):21-21, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_6118 .