{"id":30342,"date":"2026-03-23T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/?post_type=exhibition&p=30342"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:27:36","slug":"records-of-togetherness-and-intimacy","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/en\/exhibition\/records-of-togetherness-and-intimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Records of togetherness and intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\n
The photography vault of the national conservation service\n as a promoter of culture <\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of the European Heritage Days 2025<\/strong> event, which marks its 30th anniversary and also the second day of Kostajnica\u2019s heritage celebration, and at the invitation of the Matica hrvatska branch in Hrvatska Kostajnica, we gladly and proudly opened the doors, if only slightly, to the national conservators\u2019 analogue photographic treasury. Today it is preserved under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Media<\/strong>, within its central Cultural Heritage Photo Archive and the photo archives of its conservation departments throughout Croatia. This collection comprises more than half a million photographs created between 1864 and the end of the 20th century, when analogue photography was gradually replaced by digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The National Conservation Analogue Photographic Fund includes more than half a million photographs taken between 1864 and the late 20th century, when analogue photography was supplanted by its digital counterpart. These photographs were to a certain extent inherited from the museums of the time, such as the Archaeological Museum in Split <\/em>(founded in 1820), the National Museum<\/em> (founded in Zagreb in 1846), and the Central Commission for the Study and Preservation of Architectural Monuments (K. K. Central- Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale),<\/em> which was founded in Vienna in 1850, and which came to our parts in 1854. The Conservation Analogue Photographic Fund was to a great extent created by modern conservation service \u2013 one that follows the principles of the Vienna School of Art History and that promotes equally all historical and stylistic aspects of monuments, but also fosters a creative approach. From the beginning, it was represented in our area by the National Commission for the Preservation of Artistic and Historical Monuments in the Kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia in Zagreb, founded in 1910, and later by its successors. From the second half of the 20th century, especially in the 1960s and 70s, the National Conservation Service \u2013 which until then had operated in Zagreb with jurisdiction over the continental area, and Split, where it was in charge of the coastal area and its hinterland (Istria was excluded from this area from 1920 to 1945 by the Treaty of Rapallo) \u2013 was significantly reorganised, operationalised and upgraded with numerous regional institutes and professional photographic support. The National Conservation Analogue Photographic Fund shows that conservation photography does not necessarily have to be just a working, operational document that we use only when restoring monuments, but it can also be a memento, a testimony to all that is ours and cherished, everything that we have created and had for generations, and that \u2013 at a certain moment, during peaceful or turbulent times \u2013 we have partially or completely lost (or will lose in the future).
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the auspices of conservation and other related services in the last century, in the alchemy of dark rooms, countless dynamic photographs came to light with a fullness of content. These were often unique and unrepeatable representations of exceptional aesthetic impressions of cultural landscapes, buildings, artifacts, people, their lives and skills, their communities and intimacies. The coexistence of our culture. Our distinctiveness! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these representations and photographs are our priceless cultural assets, our guideposts and strongholds for the future. We need to ensure that we guard this treasure!<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li>
  • \"\"<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    The photography vault of the national conservation service as a promoter of culture As part of the European Heritage Days 2025 event, which marks its 30th anniversary and also the second day of Kostajnica\u2019s heritage celebration, and at the invitation of the Matica hrvatska branch in Hrvatska Kostajnica, we gladly and proudly opened the doors, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29280,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/?post_type=exhibition&p=30339"},"categories":[32],"tags":[81,84,87],"acf":{"featured":true},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/30342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}