Does this intend you had earlier experiences with photography?
Photography was a necessity for me, it was important for me
to take good photos of my sculptures. Secondly, even during my art
history studies, I thought I should learn photography also. Thirdly, I
had always been very interested in cinema and photography was
half way between cinema and art, so I necessarily studied photography. I started dealing with photography on amateur basis even before university. Then I also did a photography course. I bought some
pretty good equipment and I made a certain number of some really
good photos. For a couple of years, I even worked as a photography
editor at the Photo Cine Review (Foto Kino Revija), if I recall well it
was in Photography and World (Fotografija i Svet) section. This engagement was later on very helpful to me for my work at the museum, for I would do by myself all of my slide shots for the lectures.
Still, the photography has always been a side activity for me. Just to
offer you an example, in 1982. at the Salon of the Contemporary Art
Museum, I had organised an exhibition with a title “Polaroid Instant
Evening” (“Polaroid Instant Vece”). It was a one-day event. We invited some artists and photographs to take photos with a Polaroid
camera, there, on the spot, and those photos were exhibited immediately that very evening. The exhibition started and ended that
very evening. Polar