Art within Reach. Photomechanical Reproductions of Works of Art from Print to Digital

0582530 - ÚDU 2024 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Balbi, Camilla - Buddeus, Hana - Mašterová, Katarína - Parkmann, Fedora - Vítů, Viktorie
Art within Reach. Photomechanical Reproductions of Works of Art from Print to Digital.
[Praha, 05.12.2023-06.12.2023, (K-WRD 27/19)]
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) LQ300332301
Program: Prémie Lumina quaeruntur
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : digital art history * photomechanical reproductions * periodical studies * media studies * history of photography
OECD category: Arts, Art history
https://photomatrix.cz/conference

The conference discussed photomechanical reproductions of artworks published in a variety of formats – as art books, single prints, photoalbums and even as textual descriptions in advertisements – and contexts – Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the US, Norway, Italy, France or Belgium. The diversity of these novel photomechanical sources, the system that produced and surrounded them, and their distribution and cultural impact are still an open field for investigation, one that seems all the more important to address as this visual information has been made widely accessible by the digitization campaigns of recent years.The question remains: How do you deal with photomechanical prints in both material and digital format, and how do you articulate qualitative and quantitative approaches to these sources? By bringing together speakers from across the methodology spectrum, the conference opened a discussion between those who conduct qualitative research and close reading and the growing number of scholars and digital experts who work on large datasets and approach them through textual analysis and computer vision.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0350604