The first well-known color photography of the former Yugoslavia was represented by a Roma street child holding a violin in his hands. The name of the Roma child, as well as the location, remain unknown. The photo is titled "Roma with Violin" and the year it was made was 1907 or 1908.
It was filmed with an autochrome technique, and was released to the Limerie brothers from their factory in Lyon last year.
Its author is Djordje Stanojevic a Serbian physicist, astronomer, rector of the University of Belgrade, who was born in Negotin in 1856 and died in Paris in 1921. Stanojevic is also known in Serbia who illuminated Serbia.
He devoted his life and work to the development of science. He was a pioneer of the electrification and industrialization of Serbia, author of several scientific works in the field of astrophysics, and author of the aforementioned photography. Thanks to his engagement, Belgrade in 1893 received a thermal power plant, and the Serbian capital was among the first to have electric trams and lighting.
Link: https://www.ngportal.rs/djordje-stanojevic-naucnik-koji-je-osvetlio-srbiju/
