Watch video of a Feb. 3, 2010, talk, “On Photography’s Expanded Field,” by Vesna Pavlovic, assistant professor of art, part of the Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series.
Referencing George Baker’s 2005 essay on photography, Professor Pavlovic’ discusses her own photographic work, and contemporary photography’s questioning of the medium’s 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, Pavlovic’s 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.
Contact: lunchbox@vanderbilt.edu