Important Swiss art photographer who came from artist family from Geneva. In 1887 Boissonnas became a member of the Geneva Photographic Society. He traveled to Greece many times and was hired by the Greek government in the 1910s to create an album entitled “The images of Greece”.
His art photographs of Thessaloniki, Skopje, Prilep, Bitola, etc. can be found in several books published by “Editions d’Art Boissonnas” in Geneva, in the period of 1913-1920, for example: “Le berceau des Serbes; photographies de Fred. Boissonnas; introduction de D. Baud-Bovy. Genève: Éditions d’art Boissonnas 1919, and Fred Boissonnas – La Macédoine Occidentale, Editions d’Art Boissonnas 1921, etc.
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The Miss Stone Affair
1958 – A historic year for Macedonian cinematography“Miss Stone” – the first Macedonian and Yugoslavian color film, shot in then-advanced “Totalscope” optical technology started to