The Serenity House, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland,

YUGOSLAVIA 1926

In the mid-1920s the prominent German photographer Kurt Hielscher was invited by the government in Belgrade to travel to Yugoslavia and create a book with images of the state, founded only a few years earlier. Kurt Hielscher had already published similar and very successful books about Italy, Spain and Germany, so he took up the invitation with enthusiasm.

The journey - from the Alps to Novo Mesto towards Bulgaria - produced 1200 photographs, from which he chose 191. In Hielscher's words, those were the few "which would try to show the attractive, diverse character of the landscape, the architecture, and way of life of the Yugoslavs... I didn't want to create a collection of postcards".

The result is a stunning and often moving collection, published in a book in 1926 in Berlin by Ernst Wassmuth AG.

Please, respect the author's original work, do not "colorize" these photo plates. It's an act of vandalism.

village house in Krašnja

Otočec castle on the Krka river

Šibenik

Split

Črešnjevac

Girls from Busovača

Počitelj on the Neretva

Mostar

Sarajevo market

Wotruba Church in Vienna.

Habitat 67, by Moshe Safdie and August Komendant (1967).

Montréal, Québec - Canada.

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