Remembering Serbia’s Balkan Wars in Pictures and Words

During and immediately after the Balkan Wars, different types of visual narratives emerged in Serbia to depict war - illustrated periodical, represented by Balkanski rat [The War], photographic exhibitions, postcards, collage appendices alleged atrocities committed belligerents Wars. The first three forms were created for a domestic audience dissemination among Serbia’s military civic elites latter form foreign governments their publics. From these materials an official narrative depicting as fighting liberation Serbs living Ottoman territory (even if peoples Macedonia did not identify Serbs) First War and, Second, resisting territorial ambitions Bulgaria.