Original photographs by Josef Sudek offer a starting point for a conversation about images today. NYPL photography curator Elizabeth Cronin and artist Barbora Trnková explore his work through the lens of new technologies, with an opportunity to view photographs from the Library’s collections.
RSVP - již brzyThe discussion brings together a curator’s perspective on photographic history and an artist’s investigation of digital images and the “machine gaze.” How do the tools used to make an image influence what it reveals—and what it leaves out?
The event is part of the accompanying program for Pixels and Poetics, which connects the work of Josef Sudek and Jaromír Funke with contemporary experiments in image-making. The New York Public Library, an official exhibition partner, holds Sudek’s work in its photography collection.
Elizabeth Cronin is the Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography at The New York Public Library. She curated The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History and edited its accompanying publication.
Barbora Trnková is a Brno-based artist, photographer, researcher, and curator whose work examines how digital technologies reproduce dominant ways of seeing. She holds a PhD from Brno University of Technology’s Faculty of Fine Arts and co-founded ScreenSaverGallery. Her work is featured in Pixels and Poetics.
Presented as part of the partnership between The New York Public Library and Czech Center New York for Pixels and Poetics.
