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Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus, Prizren, Kosovo(back then Yugoslavia), 1969

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Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus (1909–1999) studied art history, philosophy and history at the universities of Marburg, Innsbruck, Rostock and Göttingen from 1928 to 1934.Otto received his doctorate from Count Vitzhum in 1934. After years of research at the Bibliotheca Hertziana from 1937 to 1945, he headed the library of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich from 1948 and later also as a techer at Munich University.In 1962 he became senior librarian at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and later headed the institute alongside Wolfgang Lotz as director until 1977.Until his death he was an emeritus academic member of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. In 1971, 1978 and 1991, Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus donated a total of 3,500 black-and-white photographs and negatives of architecture and sculpture, mainly from Italy, but also from Yugoslavia and Spain, to the library, which the researcher made between 1967 and 1975.

#4ALBANIANS #albania #albanian #albanians #shqip #kosovo #kosova #prizren #otto lehmann-brockhaus #otto lehmann #ottolehman #ottolehmannbrockhaus #art history #history #black and white #mosque #chruch #orthodox #library #hertziana #yugoslavia

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Michele Pero, Albania (Part 2/6), 1996

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In 1996 Michele Pero meets for his first time the Albanian people on their own land and he discovers a reality so far from the one depicted by the overseas media.Instead of a hungry people forced to yield a life of privation he meets a happy people, smiling, satisfied of their land and proud of their way of life.

#4ALBANIANS #albania #albanian #albanians #tirana #kosovo #kosova #shqiptare #shqiptar #michele pero #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #documentary #1996 #crisis #poor #happiness #michelepero

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Michele Pero, Albania (Part 1/6), 1996 

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In 1996 Michele Pero meets for his first time the Albanian people on their own land and he discovers a reality so far from the one depicted by the overseas media.Instead of a hungry people forced to yield a life of privation he meets a happy people, smiling, satisfied of their land and proud of their way of life.

#4ALBANIANS #albania #albanian #albanians #tirana #kosovo #kosova #shqiptare #shqiptar #michele pero #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #1996 #crisis #poor #happynes #happiness #michelepero

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Ernst Nowack, Tirana, Albania, 1917/1918

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Ernst Nowack was an Austrian geologist. In 1917/18 he worked as a military geologist in Albania. From 1922 to 1924 he was a national geologist in Albania and because of his work the first geological map of Albania was published in 1929 (on a scale of 1: 200,000).

#4ALBANIANS #albania #albanian #albanians #tirana #tirane #tiran #shqip #blackandwhite #b&w #oldphotography #kosovo #kosova #shqiptare #market #mosque #1917 #1918 #ernst nowack #ernstnowack #geology

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Walter Becke, Shkodër, Albania 1927

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Walter Erich Becke, died in 1933, was a German teacher. Between 1918 and 1932 he made several trips to different regions of Europe and the Middle East.

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Serie: Walter Becke Collection 1921/1932 - Adriatic journey 1927

#4ALBANIANS #albanians #albanian #albania #blackandwhite #Black and White #1927 #shkoder #Shkodër #shkodra #nationalgeographic #balkan #history #shqip #shqiptar

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July, 1967, Peja, KosovoPhotography by: Ludo Kuipershttps://ozoutback.com.au/Kosovo/

#4ALBANIANS #kosovo #kosova #kosov #peja #peje #pej #pec #rugova #albania #albanian #albanians #old #Black and White #b&w #bw #old photograhpy #kosove #rugov #rugove #kosovo e vjeter #old kosovo #old kosova #old peja #peja e vjeter

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Sylber's Photography Slideshow - Kosovo, Albania & Montenegro

#4ALBANIANS #kosovo #albania #albanian #kosova #kosove #peja #peje #Montenegro #crna gora #ulcinj #ulqin #ulqini #orroberde #orroberda #orroberd #banja pejes

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Kosovo, 1999, Photo by: Wolfgang Eilmes

#4ALBANIANS #kosovo #kosova #war #blackandwhite #bw #refugees #albanian #albania #camp

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Sylber Gashi & Abetare Hyseni, Albanian Traditional Love, 2017 photography by Shenoll Zehri

#abetare hyseni #sylber gashi #abetare #hyseni #sylber #gashi #albanians #albanian #albania #kosovo #kosova #peja #peje #rugova #rugove #rugov #kosove #shqiptar #shqiptart #shqiptare #qiftet #bjeshkt #rugovanat #rugovan #shqiptarja #albaner #prishtine #prishtana #traditional #love

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Sylber Gashi & Abetare Hyseni, Traditional Love in Rugova, Peja, Kosovo

#Abetare Hyseni #Sylber Gashi #4ALBANIANS #Albanians #Albanian #traditional #love #couples #kosovo #kosova #kosov #kosove #albania #rugova #rugov #rugove #peja #peje #prishtina #prishtine #shqiptar #shqiptart #qifte shqiptare #qifte shqiptar #bjeshkt #rugovanat #rugovan #bjeshka #shqiptarja #shqiptare

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Sylber Gashi & Abetare Hyseni, 2017, Rugova, Peja, Kosovo 

#4ALBANIANS #Abetare Hyseni #Sylber Gashi #Rugova #Rugove #Rugov #Albanians #Albanian #Kosovo #Kosova #Shqiptar #Shqiptart #Peja #Peje #Albania #Love #Couple #Prishtina #Prishtine #Kosov

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17 February 2016, Prishtina, Kosovo, photographer: unknown 

#4ALBANIANS #Albanians #Albanian #Albania #Kosovo #kosova #prishtina #prishtin #pristina

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Bredhovë

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The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.

“Suicide’s Note” by Langston Hughes

#radiohead #codex #langston #hughes #langston hughes

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scars of war. kosova winter 2015 bogë, rugovë.

(thanks to;  sheshawtyx)

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Albanian woman during the war in Kosovo, 1999, George Georgiou

#4albanians #kosovo #kosova #war #lufta #albanian #albanians #black and white #George Georgiou #georgiou #emotional #baby #woman #bw #refugees

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UCK soldiers rehearse a last salute to their dead colleague before the funeral of 51 UCK soldiers in Kosovo, August 1999 

Joachim Ladefoged photography

thanks to: unesaisonenenfer