Studio portrait of Rayna Karastoyanova Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950 Anelia Kassabova editor Centre for Southeast European History, University Graz Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:vase.940 Личен Архив Биляна Брайкова Карастоянова Bilyana Braykova Karastoyanova BK_063 Photography Records Clothing Familiy Gender Roles and Issues Bulgaria Sofia Sofia 23.32415,42.69751 Photograph Photographer 1896 after Dimitar Anastasov Karastoyanov Karastoyanov, Dimitar Anastasov Half length shot of a woman in a light-coloured urban dress, standing in front of a curtain. Rayna Baldzhieva Karastoyanova (1878 – ~ 1958). Rayna graduated from Sofia’s First Women’s High School and married in 1898 the photographer Dimitar Anastasov Karastoyanov. She started to work as a retoucher in her husband’s photographic studio. However, she soon became a photographer herself. Although Rayna worked independently and continued the photographic business until approximately 1936 after Dimitar’s death in 1919, there are hardly any photographs signed by her personally. The family had four sons: Bogdan, Vladimir, Bozhidar and Lyuben. Bogdan Dimitrov Karastoyanov and Bozhidar Dimitrov Karastoyanov became the Karastoyanov family’s third generation of photographers. Not specified Promenade 223 119 183 93 Bulgaria Sofia