Online Exhibition:

Photo Album of Folk Costumes by Franz Thiard de Laforest

Koraljka Kuzman ŠlogarInstitute of Ethnology and Folklore Research

Zagreb, Croatia

_____________________________________________The Eight SEEDI Conference. Zagreb, 15 - 16 May 2013

Franz Thiard de Laforest(Vienna, 1838 – Kotor, 1911)

19th century wood cameras, equipment and technic

Laforest as one of the pioneers of the art of photography

Krka Waterfalls, near Skradin(Croatia)

The Bridge, Mostar (Bosnia and Hercegovina)

Photos taken from the Album von Dalmatien. Zagreb: Hrvatski državni arhiv, 2011.

Laforest as one of the pioneers of the art of photography

Boka Navy, Kotor(Montenegro)

Photos taken from the Album von Dalmatien. Zagreb: Hrvatski državni arhiv, 2011.

Piazza dei Signori, Split(Croatia)

Album Von Dalmatien

Album von Dalmatien. Zagreb: Hrvatski državni arhiv, 2011.

Album Von Dalmatien

Photos taken from the Album von Dalmatien. Zagreb: Hrvatski državni arhiv, 2011.

Album of Folk Costumes

Rural musicians,

HerzegoviniansMontenegrins, higher social classes

Soldiers, Herzegovinians Herzegovinians

Album of Folk Costumes

� donation from Lidija Laforest to the IEF in 2005

� 382 duplicates of the photos of folk costumes

� attribution of photos (ethnologist Aleksandra Muraj, Ph.D.)

� digitization

� importing into IEF’s repository

Costumes

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Album of Folk Costumes

Female costume. Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Male costume. Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Album of Folk Costumes

Male costume.

Montenegro.Male costume.

Dalmatia, Obrovac.

Album of Folk Costumes

Female costume. Montenegro.

Female costume. Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Digital Repository

Digital Repository

Digitization of the original photo album

� photo album stored in the Maritime Museum of Montenegro in Kotor

� loan of the original photographs for digitization

� dimension of originals: 5.5 by 9 cm

� sepia photographs

Digitization of the original photo album

� flatbed scaner

� resolution 600 dpi

� master images (.tiff):

� external hard disc and server of the IEF

� copies (.jpg):

� DVDs (at the IEF and Maritime Museum) and digital repository (IEF)

� organization

� Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research - Zagreb, Croatia

� Mileva Pejaković Vujošević, Maritime Museum of Montenegro - Kotor, Montenegro

� Lana Srkoč, Ms. Laforest's attorney - Zagreb, Croatia

A traveling photo-exhibition & digital photo album

� objectives

� promotion of the name and work of Franz Thiard de Laforest

� long-term protection of unique photo collection

� free public access to Laforest’s photographs as documents of the past

A traveling photo-exhibition & digital photo album

� Austria (Vienna)

� Italy (Trieste)

� Croatia (Zagreb, Rijeka, Bakar, Šibenik, Zadar, Split, Omiš,Metković, Dubrovnik...)

� Bosnia and Hercegovina (Mostar, Livno…)

� Montenegro (Kotor…)

International project

Museums(list of some potential host institutions)

� Ethnographic Museum – Zagreb, Croatia

� Maritime Museum of Montenegro – Kotor, Montenegro

� Museum für Völkerkunde - Vienna, Austria

� Museo Civico di Storia Patria (or the Civico Museo del Mare) - Trieste, Italy

� Museum of Herzegovina - Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

� Maritime and History Museum - Rijeka, Croatia

� National Museum Zadar - Zadar, Croatia

� Sibenik City Museum - Sibenik, Croatia

� Ethnographic Museum Split - Split, Croatia

� Ethnographic Museum Dubrovnik - Dubrovnik, Croatia

� traveling exhibition

� 5 countries included: Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Italy & Austria

� creating a catalog

� publication of electronic editions of the album photos

International project

The values of digitization

� popularisation of the name and work of Laforest

� material prepared for export to Europeana

� long term protection of the original photos

� multiple copies & storage at multiple locations

� public access to photos (online and in print media)

Thank you for attention!

_____________________________________________The Eight SEEDI Conference. Zagreb, 15 - 16 May 2013