I had occasionally posted here some beautiful, old black and white photographs of old Zagreb (my hometown) but today I just discovered the most exciting collection of old photographs created by wonderful German artist Kurt Hielscher who travelled around Europe during 1910, 1920s and 1930s and published his work in several books. In 1920s he actually visited Yugoslavia (at the time officially known as Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) and took some excellent pictures that really captured diversity of life back than all over various places, from Alps in the North (Slovenia) all the way down to south (Macedonia) and I think these photographs are just magnificent. Almost two decades later Rebecca West will publish her classic travelogue "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" that describes what she had seen during her journeys trough Balkans and I am almost 100% sure this is what she had seen herself, because outside of big towns life never changed much with time.
Minaret in Jajce, today Bosnia & Herzegovina
Montenegrin playing on gusle
In Višegrad, Bosnia
Sarajevo Jewish Cemetery
Počitelj on the Neretva, Hercegovina
Mostar
Two girls in Sarajevo
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