Stevan Kragujević

[5] Over his career, Kragujević accumulated a rich stock of photos of President Tito, covering his trips around the country, visits to various companies, meetings with foreign statesmen, along with a series of casual anthological, unofficial ones.

[4] During his work in "Politika", especially in the period of modernization (after moving to the new, present-day building) he held other important positions – Chief of the Photolaboratory and Photo department of the company.

[6] With his ample work, Kragujević made a unique documentary chronology about the development of Yugoslavia, being an eyewitness, as a photojournalist, of all important political, cultural, artistic and sports events.

As an accredited correspondent, he was present at all the events in the Yugoslav Assembly, Party and Union conventions, May-Day Parade and Youth Day, formation of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM, Brioni, 1956), student protests in 1968, natural disasters and accidents (Skoplje earthquake, 1963).

The gallery of his portraits of politicians, statesmen and monarchs in the second half of the twentieth century, who visited Yugoslavia at that time include Nehru, Muammar Gaddafi, Nasser, Indira Gandhi, Khrushchev, Edward Kennedy, Elizabeth II, the British Queen, the Greek Royal Couple, and also other outstanding persons in the field of science, literature, film and sports such as American astronaut Neil Armstrong, opera star Mario del Monaco, chess magician Robert Fischer, film stars Laurence Olivier, Gérard Philipe, Yves Montand, Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Yul Brynner, as well as a lot of artists and legends in the country, musicians, actors and writers – Nobel Laureate Ivo Andrić, Branko Ćopić, Desanka Maksimović, Dobrica Ćosić, Vasko Popa.

The legacy holds nearly 6.000 original negatives and about 1.500 photographs, many books and catalogues about Stevan Kragujević and those with his photos, as well as dozens of items and documents giving evidence of his profession as a photojournalist, and also about his cooperation and friendship with many outstanding contemporaries home and abroad.

Photograph of Ivo Andrić
Photograph of Yul Brynner in Sarajevo
Kragujević on a 2022 stamp of Serbia