Informatica museologica, No. 45-46, 2015.
Case report
Foto Tonka: Secrets of the Professional Photography of the Interwar Period
Sandi Bulimbašić
; Ministarstvo kulture Republike Hrvatske, Uprava za zaštitu kulturne baštine, Konzervatorski odjel u Splitu, Split
Abstract
Text is a review of the catalogue and exhibition Foto Tonka:
Secrets of the Photographic Studio of a Social Chronicler
curated by Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić, phD. The exhibition took
place in Klovićevi dvori Gallery in Zagreb, from the 30th January to the 26th April 2015. It was also set in Varaždin and Rogaška Slatina. It is a retrospective exhibition of a professional
photographer Antonija Vajda (1887-1971), married Kulčar and
later on Prut, better known as Tonka, whose photographic studio was one of the cult places in the interwar Zagreb. Lovorka
Magaš Bilandžić analyzes Tonka’s oeuvre through different
topics: portraits, nudes, theatre and dance performances, less
known reportage photography, fashion and advertising photography, photographs of the royal Karađorđević family, and for
the first time she interprets and evaluates it in the context of
Croatian and European photography of the period between the
two worlds wars.
Keywords
Hrčak ID:
176854
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Publication date:
2.9.2016.
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