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Figure 5 | Happy New Year with Lepa Brena, available from http://yugoslavian.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-newyear-with-lepa-brena.html.
The strategy to photograph rather than scan items seems telling: a scan would eradicate the
distinction between the object and its representation, but the photograph of a magazine quite
overtly emphasises the fact that the story is about an ‗object‘ that can be touched, smelled, torn
apart even. Finally, the post has a video embedded of Brena performing on New Year‘s Eve 1988.
Yugoslavian posts many other things, including photos of toy phones, various medals and orders,
post stamps, a series of photos of a porcelain plate featuring a Yugoslav coat of arms in silver. In a
post form 1 May 2010, Yugoslavian presents a collection of six LPs featuring working and
brigade‘s songs, and a homemade video to a popular marching song, ―Long live Labour,‖
featuring panning views over different LPs covers. 157 (This post is a good example of what several
other blogs that I am now turning to attempt on a considerably larger scale.)
These posts, taken as a whole represent facets of everyday life in Yugoslavia and indeed provide a
window, selectively opened by the blogger; a window all the more in that a photo is in fact a
frame opening onto a photographed object and the iconography it conveys. With a few exceptions
157 See ―Labor Day, May 1,‖ Yugoslavia – Virtual Museum, http://yugoslavian.blogspot.com/2009/05/labor-day-may-
1st.html, accessed 21 August 2011.
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