THE LIFE OF PEOPLE AT THE FOUNDING OF YUGOSLAVIA: Sights that bring you to old times (PHOTO)
On his journey from Alps to the Novo Mesto towards Bulgaria, a famous artists created 1.200 photographs, from which he chose 191
In the middle 1920, a famous German photographer Kurt Hielscher received a invitation from Belgrade authorities to travel around Yugoslavia and create a book with pictures of the country, founded just a few years before.
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The renowned photographer Hielscher already created similar and very successful books in Italy, Spain, Germany, so he took this invitation with enthusiasm.
He received a translator in Belgrade, a introduction letter to all local authorities and cars that were available to him at all times during his stay in Yugoslavia.
On his journey from Alps to the Novo Mesto towards Bulgaria, a famous artists created 1.200 photographs, from which he chose 191.
He is one of the rare photographers that tried to show the active and diverse character of the landscapes, architecture and the way of life in Yugoslavia at the time.
- I did not want to create a collection of postcards - wrote at the time Hielscher.
The results of his journey and photographing were published in the book in 1926 in Berlin by Ernst Wasmuth.
This is how Herceg Novi, Split, Sarajevo, Mostar, Skopje, Dubrovnik, Trebinje looked like...