Portrait of Rayna Baldzhieva-Karastoyanova
| Description: | Head shot of an elderly woman in urban clothes. |
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| Comment: | Rayna Baldzhieva Karastoyanova (1878 – ~ 1958). Rayna graduated from Sofia’s First Women’s High School and married in 1898 the photographer . 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. and became the Karastoyanov family’s third generation of photographers. |
| Date: | Not before 1940 |
| Location: | Sofia |
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Type: | Photograph |
| Creator: | Karastoyanov, Bozhidar Dimitrov, (Photographer) |
| Dimensions: | Artefact: 220mm x 160mm |
| Format: | Not specified |
| Technique: | Not specified |
| Keywords: | 210 Records > 215 Photography 290 Clothing 550 Individuation and Mobility > 551 Personal Names 550 Individuation and Mobility > 554 Status, Role, and Prestige 590 Familiy 880 Adolescene, Adulthood, and Old Age 890 Gender Roles and Issues |
| Copyright: | Личен Архив Биляна Брайкова Карастоянова |
| Archive: | Bilyana Braykova Karastoyanova, Inv. No.: BK_029 |
| License: | This picture is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
| Editor: | Anelia Kassabova |
| Permalink: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:vase.751 |