Studio portrait of Rayna KarastoyanovaVisualizing 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.940Личен Архив Биляна Брайкова КарастояноваBilyana Braykova KarastoyanovaBK_063PhotographyRecordsClothingFamiliyGender Roles and IssuesBulgariaSofiaSofia23.32415,42.69751PhotographPhotographer1896 afterDimitar AnastasovKarastoyanovKarastoyanov, Dimitar AnastasovHalf 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 specifiedPromenade22311918393BulgariaSofia