Studio portrait of a man and three women in folk attireVisualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950Anelia KassabovaeditorCentre for Southeast European History, University GrazCentre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Grazo:vase.214Научен архив на Българската Академия на НаукитеScientific Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of SciencesФ. 3К, оп. 1, а.е. 1288-2Social PersonalityBehavior Processes and PersonalitySpecial GarmentsClothingSocial StratificationClassesSocial StratificationVerbal ArtsArtsHumanistic StudiesScience and HumanitiesStateInternational RelationsStateBulgariaSofiaSofia23.32415,42.69751PhotographPhotographer1878-1880Anastas NikolovStojanović/KarastoyanovStojanović/Karastoyanov, Anastas NikolovFull length shot of three standing women in folk attire with headdresses with flowers and a man sitting next to them in traditional costume. Painted canvas backdrop, which creates the illusion of the scene being set in nature.Verso: hand-written inscription [from K. Jireček]: "Slatina bei Sofia / Sopi Sofijski (od Slatiny)." The photograph is kept in the personal archive of Konstantin Jireček. Konstantin Josef Jireček (1854 - 1918) was a Czech historian, diplomat and Slavist. He entered the Bulgarian service in 1879, and in 1881 became Minister of Education in Sofia. In 1884 he became Professor of Universal History in Czech at the Charles University in Prague, and in 1893 Professor of Slavonic Antiquities at the University of Vienna.Not specifiedCabinet16011112298BulgariaSofiaKassabova, Anelia (2013): Inclusion and Exclusion: The Role of Photography in the Nation-Building Process in Bulgaria from Approximately 1860 to World War I. In: Demski, Dagnosław, Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, and Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska (Eds.): Competing Eyes: Visual Encounters with Alterity in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest: L‘ Harmattan, 133.