On Photographys Expanded Field
535 views · Published 5 February 2010 · 55:37 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2010 · Education
Watch video of a Feb. 3, 2010, talk, "On Photographys Expanded Field, by Vesna Pavlovic, assistant professor of art, part of the Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series. Referencing George Bakers 2005 essay on photography, Professor Pavlovic discusses her own photographic work, and contemporary photographys questioning of the mediums language. Professor Pavlovic has developed her projects as anthropological studies, analyzing different cultures and their visual representations through particular phenomena. Issues of the experience of history and the changes it brings to society and culture, as well as taste, desire and expectation, and the friction of performance in different contexts prevail in her work. The shifting boundaries of contemporary public and private spaces are an instance of these themes. Either presented as a photographic print, or as a projected image within installation, Pavlovics pieces confront photographic representation, and attempt to reveal the layers constituting the image. Vanderbilt University partners with the Nashville Public Library for the Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box series. A series of lunchtime talks with a philosophical flavor.
