Peculiarities and Challenges in Organizing the Photographic Fond of Marjan Ciglič

A Case of Systematic Organization of the Fond Based on a Specific Example

Abstract

The aim of the article is to provide a detailed presentation of the systematic organization and research on Marjan Ciglič’s photographic fond, with an emphasis on its peculiarities and a specific case—the Skopje earthquake of 1963. Marjan Ciglič is considered to be the pioneer of documenting and keeping original negatives, with his work method serving as the benchmark for systematic organizing and professional handling of photographic fonds, which essentially encompasses physical ordering, research, making and maintaining an inventory, documenting, digitization, as well as feeding photos and data into the document management system, and so on. Ciglič’s photographic opus is kept in Fototeka, the photo archives of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia, as part of the largest national collection holding over three million photographs on different media.