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Museum Shows Photographs by Former President of Yugoslavia

BELGRADE.- The public life of Josip “Tito” Broz is all too familiar to us. But despite the efforts of the propagandists of the day to depict for us his other, private life, this still eludes us. The material now before you provides an extremely valuable insight into this: the people Tito associated with in his free time, where and how he spent that time and, of course, the way he saw all this through the magic extension of the human eye, still or film camera. Photography remained Tito’s favourite hobby right to the end of his life. Despite his stubborn devotion to it for more than forty years, he was consistently amateur to the end. Although he took tens of thousands of photographs, he had no desire to rise above the average in this endeavour, thus bearing out in the best possible way the original meaning of the word “amateur” (Latin: amator “lover”). Thus he was a lover of photography, someone who simply adored it. Being