Retrospektive, letnik VI, številka 1

Abstract (Izvleček članka v angleščini)

The purpose of this original scientific article is to present the development of photojournalism in Slovenia on a multilayer level, on the example of newspaper Dnevnik. The article refers to the doctoral dissertation, which will focus on the work of Marjan Ciglič, a long-term photojournalist with the newspaper Dnevnik, and his legacy of photographs which are kept in Fototeka of the National Museum of Contemporary History. The content of the thesis will be complemented by his photographs or photographs of him. I wanted to present within the description of the development of the newspaper house Dnevnik the fact that Ciglič grew with Dnevnik and later Nedeljski dnevnik and at the same time place him in the space and time in which he created an invaluable national photographic heritage. The goal of the thesis, which is presented in this article, is to find parallels between Ciglič and newspaper Dnevnik, and Ciglič and other photojournalists that worked at Dnevnik, of which photographs are also kept in the museum. Roughly the article is divided into two parts. The first part is a detailed history of the newspaper house Dnevnik and its development, mentioned are specific campaigns that helped the newspaper and weekly newspaper achieve greater visibility and photography played an important role in achieving this. In the second part both long and short-term photojournalists that worked besides Ciglič at Dnevnik are presented. A special emphasis is made on the photojournalists of which fonds are kept in the Museum and represent the largest Slovenian photo collection. While researching the main point of the thesis, Marjan Ciglič, I was looking for common ground between photojournalists of newspaper Dnevnik, the newspaper house Dnevnik and the museum photo archive. I used various sources and literature; books, professional literature, newspaper issues, original entries in the diary written by Ciglič, brochures, leaflets, oral sources, web pages, etc. The diversity of historical sources indicates how the research work is conducted for a doctoral dissertation. It also indicates the guidelines regarding my work at the museum. As the custodian of the fond of photographs by Marjan Ciglič, I am responsible for the physical processing of negatives and their digitalisation and also for researching his fond and adding to the documentation with the purpose of presenting and preserving his photographic legacy for future generations.