Anastas Jovanović. Photographer of the new Slovak political representation

0555356 - ÚDU 2023 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Trnková, Petra
Anastas Jovanović. Photographer of the new Slovak political representation.
RIHA Journal. -, April (2022), č. článku 0273. ISSN 2190-3328
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-00682S
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : paper photography * portrait * Anastas Jovanović * Ľudovít Štúr * Jozef M. Hurban * Slovakia * 1848
OECD category: Arts, Art history
Impact factor: 0.1, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/rihajournal/article/view/87886

This essay looks into the very beginnings of paper photography in the Austrian Empire. It focuses on two salted paper portraits of two most iconic figures of the Slovak National Revival in the mid-19th century, Ľudovít Štúr and Jozef M. Hurban. Created around 1848 by Anastas Jovanović, a Serbian photographer and lithographer based in Vienna, both portraits are the earliest paper photographs today preserved in Slovak collections. The article elucidates not only the salted paper prints’ authorship, origin, ownership and material characteristics, but also the notion of reproduction and circulation of images in and around the Year of Revolution and, concurrently, by the time when photography on paper started to flourish in Central Europe. Special attention is paid to social and cultural contacts between Slovaks and Serbs around 1848 as a key factor to the photographs’ production.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0332192