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https://doi.org/10.36506/av.63.4

Album Memory of Zagreb by Ivan Standl – The First Example of Collotype Printing in Croatian Photography

Hrvoje Gržina orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-8064-0144 ; Hrvatski državni arhiv


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str. 93-115

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The paper presents analysis results of the album by Ivan Standl from 1871, entitled “Memory of Zagreb”. Besides its remarkable cultural-historical value for Zagreb and Croatian photography in general, the album is also important due to printing technique of prints it contains. Namely, the photographs were multiplied by the collotype printing process, the latter being put into practice only several years before, which makes the album a pioneering achievement of the photomechanical printing on the Croatian soil. It was conceived and completed on the occasion of the First General Croatian Teachers’ Assembly held in Zagreb in 1871. Standl’s motifs of Zagreb were photomechanically multiplied in Munich at the establishment of Joseph Albert, a photographer, one of the inventors of the collotype printing. The procedure was refined and became commercially available only two years before Standl’s album was made. Standl most probably became aware of the possibilities of the photomechanical printing and of the basic features of the collotype process via the Photographische Correspondenz journal, the official organ of the Vienna Photographic Society, whose member he was from early 1866. Albert’s collotype prints illustrated more than one issue of that professional journal, the latter being available to Standl every month as the Society’s member. In all likelihood, the Croatian and Zagreb photography for the first time thus became aware of the possibilities provided by then brand new photomechanical prints and thanks to Standl and the financial aid of the Main Committee of the Teachers’ Assembly, they were able to see and obtain examples of the new invention with motifs of Zagreb. The results of the research presented in the paper – by reconstructing the context of creation of Standl’s photo album and by precisely determining the making process of the prints it assembles – enrich the history of photography in Croatia with new insights and indubitably confirm the already known importance of its author as the most renowned protagonist of the photographic medium in the 19th century Croatia.

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Hrčak ID:

248561

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/248561

Datum izdavanja:

17.12.2020.

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