Stane Jerko
Jerko was born in 1937, and studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, but his passion was always for photography. Jerko first noticed the then Melanija Knavs, aged 16, in January 1987, while she was sitting on the stairs, waiting for her friends to finish a fashion show in her hometown of Novo Mesto. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Stane Jerko
Stane Jerko / Leon Dolinšek · This image is available from the Digital Library of Slovenia under the reference number 1O27BQC7 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still r · Public domain
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- 1937 · Ljubljana.
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- Slovenia · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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- photographer
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- Slovene
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Jerko was born in 1937, and studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, but his passion was always for photography. Jerko first noticed the then Melanija Knavs, aged 16, in January 1987, while she was sitting on the stairs, waiting for her friends to finish a fashion show in her hometown of Novo Mesto. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Beethovnova 9 Ljubljana. Center za sodobno oblačenje je za fante in dekleta razpisal manekensko avdicijo.
Stane Jerko / Leon Dolinšek · This image is available from the Digital Library of Slovenia under the reference number 1O27BQC7 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still r
Beethovnova 9 Ljubljana. Center za sodobno oblačenje je za fante in dekleta razpisal manekensko avdicijo.
Stane Jerko / Leon Dolinšek · This image is available from the Digital Library of Slovenia under the reference number 1O27BQC7 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still r
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- 3.The story of the photographer who launched Melania Trump's career (Photo). Telegrafi. 2017-02-20.
- 4.New Aquisitions 26 June 2016 MG+MSUM. www.mg-lj.si.
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