Organized by Institute of Art History, Zagreb & Centre Cvito Fisković, Split

Thursday, 27. 10. 2022

9:00 Welcome

9:30 – 10:50 Session 1: Curatorial narratives and life as photographic phenomenon

ALICE HADDAD, Landscape inventory vs. collection: the photography commission of the Flemish Government Architect on display
GEORGE THEMISTOKLEOUS, Simulated photography and the de-habituation of the self(image)
ALI SHOBEIRI, The Room is the world: Reflecting on the lived life of ‘Hikikomori’ through photography
LEONIDA KOVAČ, …ce phénomène photographique, la vie

10:50 – 11:20 discussion

12:00 – 13:20 Session 2: Construction and transfer of knowledge

IVANA GRŽINA, ‘Both Sides Now’: Images of a museum’s life from up and down
VIŠNJA PENTIĆ VUKAŠINOVIĆ, An emancipated spectator – Photography as a "pedagogical tool"
DOMINIK LENGYEL and CATHERINE TOULOUSE, Creating reality to be interpreted through the photography of abstraction
KATARZYNA RUCHEL-STOCKMANS, (Non)visibility of everyday resistances in the vernacular photography of the 1950s Eastern Europe

13:20 – 14:00 discussion

15.30 – 16:30 KEYNOTE 1: MARGERITA NAIM (Fotobibliothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut), The Photographic Book as a Format of (Non)Seeing. A Bibliography for Research on Photography in the Holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

17:00 – 18:20 Session 3: Constructing and deconstructing knowledge through photography in the period between two world wars

ALEXANDRA MATZ, Tracing the threads of a relationship through archival imagery: The case of Otti Berger and Ludwig Hilberseimer
ANA RAJKOVIĆ PEJIĆ, Skinny and exhausted: visualization of labour force in interwar Yugoslavia
STELLA FATOVIĆ-FERENČIĆ and MARTIN KUHAR, The interwar project of photodocumenting Zagreb’s housing misery – various possibilities of reading their content
TIHANA PETROVIĆ LEŠ, TIHANA RUBIĆ and IVAN GRKEŠ, Between leisure and research: The Mediterranean in Milovan Gavazzi's photographic opus in the first half of the 20th century

18:20 – 19:00 discussion

Friday, 28. 10. 2022

9:30 – 10:50 Session 4: Thinking about the world in early times

HRVOJE GRŽINA, Croatia in colour: Autochromes with Croatian motifs in the Albert Kahn’s Archives of the planet
ANNIKA TOOTS, “Liquid Photography” and the photographic legacy of the Estonian photographer Jaan Riet
MERI KUNČIĆ, Photo as a source for researching of long-duration history. The example of Dalmatian island and city of Rab
ANA ŠVERKO, Female travel photography of the early 20th century: “Motoring in the Balkans along the highways of Dalmatia, Montenegro, the Herzegovina and Bosnia” (Chicago 1909) by Frances Kinsley Hutchinson

10:50 – 11:20 discussion

12:00 – 13:00 Session 5: Reality of socialist time

ANA ŠEPAROVIĆ and SANDRA KRIŽIĆ ROBAN, Photography in the focus of cultural-critical discourse: Critical reflections on photography in Croatia between 1941 and 1980
ANTE ORLOVIĆ, History of the alumina factory in Obrovac – photographic narrative
LANA LOVRENČIĆ, A midterm plan. Petar Dabac and his initiative of establishing a national museum of photography

13:00 – 13:45 discussion

15.30 – 16:30 KEYNOTE 2: NICLAS ÖSTLIND (HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg), New Eyes – Interwar Lens Media Cultures Seen Through the Optic of an International Exhibition 1929

16:30 – 17:30 discussion

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