The collection addresses (self-)representations of families and reflects on gender and generational hierarchies and the body in private and public photography and on postcards. It offers information on the origins and context of the production of these images, their utilization as well as the historical and socio-cultural conditions of their reception.
The Balkan Cinema collection is the result of research undertaken by Karl Kaser to collect visual material for his monograph ‘Hollywood in the Balkans’. Since he collected more material than he could use for the book, the idea emerged to establish the BACI collection for VASE. BACI comprises posters, commercial material, portraits of film directors, shots of cinemas and studios as well as film stills from c. 1900-1970.
Sarajevo Istanbul Belgrade Ankara – all four cities shared a common past under the Ottoman Empire, and all underwent a period of accelerated modernization and urbanization in the decades before and after World War I when they were incorporated into the new Republic of Turkey and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia respectively.
POLOS displays postcards from around 1890 – 1920 from the Spodnja Štajerska / Untersteiermark / Lower Styria region in modern-day Slovenia. Up until 1918, this region was a part of the Habsburg Monarchy, and was inhabited by speakers of both German and Slovene. The postcards provide interesting insights into early forms of ...
The research project focuses on Jovan Ritopečki`s photographic representations of Yugoslav labour migrants in Austria of the 1970s and 80s. A representative stock of approximately 120 photographic series from the photographic estate will be published at the beginning of 2025.
The project deals with the photographic legacy of the Austrian journalist, film reporter and photographer Kurt Seliger (1921-1999), who travelled to Albania in 1956 and 1957 to explore the transformations in the course of the country's socialist modernization.
