Exhibition From Camera Obscura to Polaroid opens

BELGRADE - The exhibition entitled From Camera Obscura to Polaroid has opened at the Yugoslav Film Archive Museum in Belgrade, presenting a part of a collection of more than 2,000 cameras collector Ugljesa Rajcevic donated to the museum.

The exhibits were put on display in a newly opened part of the museum, and one of Rajcevic's cameras will remain there as part of the permanent collection.

Rajcevic has been collecting photographic cameras for nearly 40 years and his collection currently stands at 2,200 cameras, projectors and other equipment items.

"The oldest item is a Kodak from 1890, while the newest come from the 1950s and they are mostly Russian cameras that were produced in large quantities," Rajcevic told Tanjug.

The exhibits include a spy camera from 1905 that looks like a pocket watch, the Magic Lantern from 1890, Lumier brothers' camera from 1896, the first film studio camera Pathe Freres from 1903, an early polyphone gramophone from 1860 and Edison's phonograph from 1908.

Photo Tanjug, T. Valic