'Karl Marx' Red University - Half a century forever, Dom Omladine, Exhibition, 2018
The photographs taken by Tomislav Peternek in June 1968 were shown the same year in the House of Youth (Dom omladine) in Belgrade. The manager at the time, Nikola Marković, organised the display of ‘hot photos’. In order to avoid censorship and a ban on holding the exhibition, it was agreed that no one would speak at the opening and that little would be said about the show in advance. The photographs were fixed on panels and covered with protective paper. Well-known actress Snežana Nikšić unmasked each individual picture. With this symbolic gesture, the public was for the first time shown what had happened in the course of those seven stormy days in Belgrade. The photographs produced at that time by Peternek are of exceptional documentary and historical value. The exhibition was reconstructed in June 2018 in Belgrade’s House of Youth, fifty years after the student protests in the city.
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