Worker Photography in Museums. History and Politics of a Cultural Heritage in East-Central Europe

This international workshop examines the legacy of worker photography as museum object, cultural heritage and history in East-Central Europe from 1945 until today. How was worker photography preserved, historized, and mediated in East-Central European museums?

Programme

9.45–10.00 Registration

10.00–10.30 Welcome and Introduction

Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES, Prague)

Petra Trnková (PHRC, De Montfort University, Leicester / Photography Research Centre, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Fedora Parkmann (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences / CEFRES, Prague)

Panel 1:

Photographs in Changing Contexts

Chair: Christian Joschke (Université Paris-Nanterre)

10.30–11.00

Lucia Almášiová (Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava)

From Amateur Social Criticism to Institutional Art

11.00–11.30

Katalin Bognár (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest)

Uses of Interwar Worker Photographs in post-1945. Hungarian Public Collections

11.30–11.45 Coffee break

11.45–12.15

Fedora Parkmann (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences / CEFRES, Prague)

The Family Photographs of Antonín Zápotocký: between Private and Public Memory

12.15–12.45

Anna Hejmová (Arts and Theatre Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences / Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague)

Continuity and Discontinuity in the Iconology of Physical Culture Photography in the Interwar and Postwar Period

12.45–13.00 Discussion

13.00–14.30 Lunch

Panel 2:

Institutional Practices

Chair: Petra Trnková (PHRC, De Montfort University, Leicester / Photography Research Centre, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

14.30–15.00

Andreas Ludwig (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam)

Contemporary Collecting in History Museums: Material Evidence or Cultural Memory as Concurring Conceptions – GDR, Sweden, West-Germany

15.00–15.30

Tomáš Kavka (National Museum, Prague)

Čeněk Pýcha (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague)

Museum of the Working-Class Movement for the 21st Century

15.30–16.00

Françoise Mayer (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier)

Communism in Museum: What Kind of Challenge?

16.00–16.15 Discussion and Conclusion

Organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the CEFRES (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences), in cooperation with the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Université Paris-Nanterre.