An Album for Tito. Belonging, Transnational Unity, andSocial Critique in a Photo Album by the YugoslavWorker’s Club Jedinstvo Vienna
This article explores a photo album presented to the Yugoslav state president Tito byJedinstvo (Unity), a Yugoslav workers’ association from Vienna, in 1972. It documents theclub’s activities while also thematically portraying the living conditions of Yugoslav labormigrants in Austria. Using the alb...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre for Southeast European Studies
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Contemporary Southeastern Europe |
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| Online Access: | https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubg:4-56865 |
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| Summary: | This article explores a photo album presented to the Yugoslav state president Tito byJedinstvo (Unity), a Yugoslav workers’ association from Vienna, in 1972. It documents theclub’s activities while also thematically portraying the living conditions of Yugoslav labormigrants in Austria. Using the album as a case study, the analysis investigates howalbums, as a communicative and active visual medium, address questions of selfrepresentationand belonging in a transnational context. Following this, the article willanalyze how the album marks the confluence of social and political demands, serving alsoas a vehicle for articulating criticism. In the first section, the article sketches the album’shistorical context, and its production and transmission history, as well as its formal andmaterial properties. In the second section, the central topics and motifs, as well as thevisual narration brought forth by the composition of the album, will be analyzed. A keyfocus lays on the album’s process of meaning-making, namely, how its content was selectedand compiled. Which strategies of filling and commemorative practices are evidenced inthe material’s utilization? Through this approach, an effort is made to explain how contentis vocalized through the album’s specific media properties. |
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| ISSN: | 2310-3612 |