The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art
Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices
Fedora Parkmann is a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and principal investigator of the five-year grant project Lumina Quaeruntur The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art (PhotoMatrix). She studied art history at Sorbonne University (M.A. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2017) and the École du Louvre in Paris. Since moving to Prague in 2019, she has been an associate researcher at CEFRES. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2019-2021 and at the CEFRES in 2022. Her research interests include the history and theory of photography, 20th century art, and transnational approaches to art history. Her research focuses on Czech photography, which she studies from a transnational perspective. Her recent articles on this topic have appeared in History of Photography and Revue des études slaves. Her current project focuses on photomechanical reproductions of art in art magazines in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Russia from 1900 to 1950. She is particularly interested in their role as vehicles of artistic exchange.