KOLEKSIONI I FOTOGRAFIVE NË ARKIVIN E KOSOVËS - dokumente për njohjen e Kosovës të shekullit të kaluar -
PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION AT THE KOSOVO STATE ARCHIVES - its value and importance for the recognition of Kosovo in the last century

Summary/Abstract: Within the framework of its activities, the State Agency of Kosovo Archives has its own special unit- Photo Archive, which has an important collection of photographs. Though the Photo Archive of Kosovo was, in fact, created as a separate unit relatively late, (in 2000), it still managed to collect and promote a significant collection of photographs, which today exceeds over 1,500 photographs. In this collection of photographs, most of them belong to the period after the Second World War, respectively the second half of the last century, but there are also photographs from previous years. This collection is important and of even greater value, because it contains preserved photographs of various personalities of that time, the main events that marked that era, monuments and objects that begun to be built and those that were, unfortunately, destroyed and we know about them today only through these photographs; preserved photographs of neighborhoods, bazaars, houses and old streets of our cities, especially Pristina, which do not exist today, photographs of craftsmen and artisans who once practiced their activities in our cities, which have already gone down in history and, since they stopped working, we know them precisely only through these photos, etc. Therefore, based on this fact, our paper talks about the values and importance of the Photo Collection preserved in the Kosovo Archives and which especially helps the visual recognition of Kosovo in the second half of the 20th century; it also talks about the content of this collection, its multiple values, but also about how to preserve, arrange, systematize, use and digitize it and make it available to researchers and other interested parties as easily as possible.

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