„За спомен“. Значения и „приложения“ на ранния студиен портрет в България (до Първата световна война)
"As a Keepsake". Meanings and "Uses" of the Early Studio Portrait in Bulgaria (until the First World War)

Summary/Abstract: The article based on a specific portrait aims to give a possible interpetation of the role studio photography in Bulgaria till the World War I played in the process of modernization. Studio portraits are regarded as normative representations. Essential part of the process of education and disciplinying, studio photography changed the culture of(self-) representation and (self-) perception and leads to an increase of(self-) control. This process was connected with (ethnic, class and gender) differentiations, taboos and “making invisible” ofeverything that remains outside the "norm".

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