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374 Barbara Derler Constructions of Otherness: The Establishment of Studio Photography and the (Non-)Visibility of Muslim Women in Sarajevo Until World War I Although there are histories of photography in southeastern Europe, the embedding of these narratives into a broader context of European photography and a history of visual perception has been absent. Seminal country studies on the history of photography have been carried out by Milanka Todi¢ for Serbia (Todi¢ 1989, 1993), by Petar Boev for Bulgaria (Boev 1983), by Nada Gréevié for Croatia (Gréevié 1981), and by Alkés X. Xanthakés for Greece (Xanthakés 1988). In contrast, a compendium on the overall history of photography in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still missing. There exists a well-done book written by the enthusiastic photographer and private photo collector Nikola Maruëié (Maruëié 2002), which gives references about the first photographers in the country. However, in a critical analysis of this book, his achievements have to be treated with some reservation due to a lack of specified sources. There is one article published by Sarita Vujkovi¢ on the establishment of photography in Banja Luka (Vujkovi¢ 2002), and there have been some exhibitions of photographers organized by museums.’ Surprisingly enough, the history of photography in the capital city of Sarajevo has not been a special focus. Besides this lack of knowledge about photography in this city, the lack of knowledge about the perception of the country and its people through the eyes of the Western world is even more surprising. Bosnia and Herzegovina were, not only in focus during the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s, but also attracted attention in much earlier time periods, during the occupation and annexation by Austria-Hungary (1878-1918) and, especially, through the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. By providing concrete pictures in addition to an ! In Sarajevo, the exhibitions were organized by the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There have been two exhibitions dedicated to the work of Frantisek Topi¢: Etnografski predmeti na fotografijama Franje Topica (Ethnographic Objects in the Photographs of Franjo Topic), 2005 and Sarajevo izmedu dvije carevine (Sarajevo Between Two Empires), 2007. Photographs of Milan Karanovié were presented in the exhibition Milan Karanovic, Zivot i rad (Milan Karanovic¢, Life and Work), 2006. In 2010, the Museum of Herzegovina organized an exhibition called 100 godina od posjeta cara Franje Josipa I. u Mostaru (100 Years After the Visit of Emperor Franz Joseph I in Mostar) with photographs by Anton Zimolo, and in 2004 the exhibition Stari most u ocima fotografa Antona Zimola (The Old Bridge Through the Eyes of the Photographer Anton Zimolo).