Original title: The Geopolitics of Photography Exhibitions. Showcasing Soviet Photographers in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Authors: Parkmann, Fedora
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: VII. sjezd historiků a historiček umění. Infrastruktury (dějin) umění, Ústí nad Labem (CZ), 20210923
Year: 2022
Language: eng
Abstract: This paper presents interwar exhibitions of photography as spaces of exchange, self-promotion, and competition for recognition in the heart of a global geopolitics of photography. Focusing on the participation of Soviet photographers at several large-scale international exhibitions organized in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, it shows that both the Czech and Soviet organizers took advantage of exhibitions to serve their respective interests: The Soviet Union to strengthen its cultural diplomacy, and the Czech supporters of Soviet photography to popularize functional and committed photographic approaches among their fellow countrymen.
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; exhibition; photography; USSR
Host item entry: Infrastruktury (dějin) umění, ISBN 978-80-7561-392-9

Institution: Institute of Art History AS ČR (web)
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