Bookbridge Dragoljub Zamurović - Srbija - Dunavski sliv - engleski cene

„Dragoljub Zamurović’s photographicmonograph, Serbia – the Danube Basin, is one of the biggest and most valuable Serbian artistic works from the beginning of the 21st century. With this book the author pays back part of the entire nation’s debt to the great and auspicious river which is deeply woven into the history of Serbia and the Serbs. And even more than that; this work of art is part of the cultural inheritance of the entire Danube Basin, with wider views of those European countries and nations which, on the banks of the Danube and its tributaries, have left traces throughout the whole history of human civilization. The time we live in also creates the inheritance and monuments for future generations and the monograph Serbia – the Danube Basin certainly belongs to that.

Zamurovic’s optical view immortalized in this book opens up the interior, removes the curtains, lifts the blinds, reveals what was previously hidden, penetrates to the source, peeks into the hollows, uncovers where the sunshine breaks through, breaks the shell, melts the centuriesold ice…

Dragoljub Zamurović was born in Niš (Serbia) in 1947. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture he went on to complete his postgraduate studies in photography at the Belgrade Faculty of Applied Arts. He has won many awards for his photography both at home and abroad. He is the author of several photographic monographs, the most significant being: Gipsies of the World, Kazakhstan, Međugorje, Kazanj, Serbia, Life and Customs, Vojvodina, Sarajevo, Montenegro and the photographic edition of The Sarajevo Haggadah.

Since 1980 he has been a member of the Association of Applied Artists and Designers of Serbia, which awarded him the title of ULUPUDS’s Distinguished Artist in 1995 thus including him among several most significant artists of Serbian photography today.

In 1988 he began cooperation with the French agency, Gamma Presse Images under the pseudonym Art Zamur and his photographs have been published in many leading international magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, Parismatch, Figaro Magazine, Geo, Europeo and National Geographic ... The renowned American magazine Life has twice published his photographs in its ‘Big Pictures’ feature and in July 1991 one of his photographs appeared on the front cover.

His latest photographic opus is like a string of the most precious pearls, the tears of a mountain spring, the breath of a forest breeze, the smell of fertile soil, the wink of a deer’s eye, a stork’s flight, the power of Belgrade’s victor… All this and much more which is interwoven with love, patience, talent, experience, risk, adventurous spirit, permanent challenge, courage…

The Danube is a permanent inspiration for artists. The banks of this fantastic river have seen the emergence of the first European civilisations and towns, the rise and fall of empires, tsars, kings, army commanders and artists, but above all people and life.

Always connecting but also dividing, the Danube has always belonged to everybody and nobody. When needed, it acts as a natural obstacle, at other times it becomes a bridge offering salvation, the source of existence, inexhaustible inspiration, a hedonistic mother, a challenge for constructors, the maelstrom of destiny…

The artist did not forget the Danube coastal area, its tributaries and their basins, natural and artificial canals and lakes, fish farms, forests and small villages, big towns, the habitat of rare flora and fauna … With his optical eye he has immortalised the beauties of the Sava, the Tisa and the Morava all the way to the south to the Timok, Vlasina, Tamiš, Begej, Drina and Rzava rivers… He has photographed, for admiration and lasting memory, specific moments in time, the sunset and the sunrise, dream and awakening, the distant past and the mystical future.

Simply said: the Danube never to be forgotten!"

– Dr. Slobodan St. Milosavljević