Сто години от рождението на Петър Боев
Peter Boev’s 100th Anniversary

Summary/Abstract: Museums, universities, research teams across the world work on recording and documenting photography as part of national visual culture. Here one man, Peter Boev worked half a century with enthusiasm of an enlightener. It was thanks to him that our vague remote past was given clarity and fascination, and all those authors and works that would otherwise be engulfed irretrievably in the chasm of an outdated rhetoric, found their logical niche not just in the history of photography, but also in the history of Bulgarian art. Boev left behind an outstanding contribution to a number of publications of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, publishing a hundred or so articles in Bulgarsko Photo journal, as well as articles about Bulgarian photography in Soviet, Hungarian, Polish, English and German encyclopaedic books and periodicals; the books The Art of Photography in Bulgaria in 1856–1944, The Art of Photography in Bulgaria in 1945–1995, A Talk on Photography and his private photographic collection of more than 3,000 photos, following the development of this artistic tool in Bulgaria in the period between the National Revival and the late twentieth century.

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