Pavlína Vogelová

Czech Republic, *1965

Area of interest: photography, film, art, social overlaps, history

Pavlína Vogelová is a curator of photography and film at the Department of Modern Czech History at the Historical Museum of the National Museum. She studied at the Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture at Masaryk University. She worked at the Moravian Gallery in the collections of photography and modern and contemporary art. She is interested in the intermedia overlaps of photography and film in relation to science, history, art and education. She is a member of the editorial board of Photograph Magazine. She has realized a number of exhibitions and publications projects, for example: Photographs of Work and Idleness (2022), Collections & Politics (with Tomáš Kavka and Jolana Tothová, 2022), Antonín Kratochvíl. David Bowie. Looking for the Light (with Michael Persson, 2022), Antonin Kratochvil. Photo Essays (2020), Space, Film and the Museum (2019), Jaromír Roller. Overlaps of Amareur Photography or Jazz in a Family Album (2018), Karel Kuklík. A Photographic Dialogue with the Landscape (2017) or Jan Calábek (2013). 

ABOUT PEOPLE: CZECH SOCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1918–1939. 

THE CONFLICT OF SUBJECTIVITY, OBJECTIVITY AND MANIPULATION IN THE MIRROR OF HISTORY, POLITICS AND ART

The dissertation focuses on Czech interwar social photography with the aim to point out the relationships between the creative language, information value and resonance, both political and social. These relationships are reflected in the approaches, production mechanisms and communication networks that enter the social, political, economic, cultural and artistic interwar life through photography. The factors that are reflected in the social nature of photography lead to the research question: What defines social photography, what are the circumstances that make photography engage into social interaction in relation to reality, and to what extent can a social image alter this reality?