The Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, as part of The PhotoMatrix Project has arranged a series of four hybrid talks as part of the Collegium Historiae Artium lecture series between February and May 2024 looking at aspects of photomechanical reproduction. They are:
14 February 2024
Meghan Forbes (independent scholar, New York)
Devětsil and the Aura of Mechanical Reproducibility
28 February 2024
Camilla Balbi (IAH CAS, Prague)
A Forgotten Media Interest: Erwin Panofsky and Photography
24 April 2024
Anthony Hamber (independent photographic historian, London)
The 1840s: Transformations in Reprographics
15 May 2024
Kim Timby (École du Louvre, Paris)
Bringing Home the Museum: The Colour Turn in Art Reproduction in the Mid-Twentieth Century
The talks will take place at the Institute of Art History of the CAS, Prague, Husova 4, general meeting room (117), 1st floor at 1630 and online.
For details and abstracts, visit https://photomatrix.cz/outputs#events
For the Zoom link, please contact by email: masterova@udu.cas.cz
About PhotoMatrix Project
Going back to the advent of photomechanical reproductions of art in periodicals at the beginning of the 20th century, PhotoMatrix examines the far-reaching consequences of this media revolution on the distribution and popularization of art among both experts and the general public. The project focuses on art and art historical journals published in Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, and Russia from 1900 to 1950. The reproductions featured in these journals will be examined quantitatively, through the methods of digital art history, and qualitatively, based on archival sources (publishers, photo agencies, photographers, printers). What new narratives of art emerge if we look into this period through the lens of reproductions printed in period journals? What new insights does this historical inquiry open into the use of remote access to art in the digital age?
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