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Petra Trnkova

@ptrnkova.bsky.social

Photo historian | all about 19thC photography | now esp. photo/mechanical reproduction | duplicates | counterfeits

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#conference | Architecture and the Power of Bureaucracy

📅 6–7 November 2025
📍 Austrian Academy of Sciences

The conference is organized by @uduavcr.bsky.social and the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, @oeaw.bsky.social.

Program ➡️ www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/arch...

23.10.2025 07:14 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Photo credit: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences.

Photo credit: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences.

#CfP from @uduavcr.bsky.social for the conference panel REFORMS, REVIVALS, AND RETURNS REVISITED at the annual conference of the @forarthistory.org.uk, taking place on 8–10 April 2026 at the University of Cambridge.

❗ Deadline: 2 November 2025

Details ➡️ forarthistory.org.uk/reforms-revi...

23.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Muzeum vystavuje unikátní daguerrotypie. Restaurátoři je detailně ošetřili - Seznam Zprávy V Polné najdeme poklad z prvního desetiletí dějin fotografie. Městské muzeum má v kolekci nejstarších fotografií sbírku devatenácti daguerrotypií. Aby se dochovaly co nejlépe, postaraly se o ně restau...

O práci našeho restaurátorského ateliéru píše Seznam Zprávy! 📸

Daguerrotypie z Městského muzea v Polné prošly detailním restaurováním v #UDUAVCR. Výsledek si můžete prohlédnout na výstavě Nebude nic! do 31. října 2025.

📰 www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/magaz...

22.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Looking back- looking ahead

cehc.hypotheses.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

22.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoc scholarship | Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i. Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i.

A new call for @uduavcr.bsky.social postdoc fellowships has been released. If interested in carrying out research in Prague (esp. at the CVF/Photography Research Centre), don't hesitate. More details at www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/vybe...

14.08.2025 06:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#postdoc
Vyhlašujeme výběrové řízení na zařazení do Programu podpory postdoktorandů/ek.

Uzávěrka přihlášek: 12. září 2025

Více informací najdete na webu.
www.udu.cas.cz/cz/akce/vybe...

13.08.2025 12:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The American Academy in Berlin is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Berlin Prize, a semester-long residential fellowship open to US-based scholars, writers, journalists, and public policy experts who wish to advance independent projects within an interdisciplinary community.
buff.ly/tCxXzgn

25.06.2025 09:13 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy to share that my article on Metternich's early interest in Daguerre's invention is now available not only to Czech readers: doi.org/10.1080/1756.... If you are interested but don't have access, please don't hesitate to reach out. #daguerreotype #Metternich #photocollection #photohist

03.06.2025 08:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Symposium Future Memories - Rijksmuseum

Symposium Future Memories: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World | 14 May 2025 at The Rijksmuseum | A one-day international symposium exploring the impact of photojournalism and documentary photography on our perceptions of the world | Live & online
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...

23.04.2025 22:25 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
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Matters of Religion: Raw Materials, Natural Resources and Craftsmanship in the Making of Religious Objects

#roundtable pro zájemce o studium materiality v kontextu raně novověké religiozity a o raně novověké sběratelství a mobilitu objektů se koná 4. 4. v #uduavcr.

www.udu.cas.cz/cz/akce/matt...

20.03.2025 09:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

"It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts. The more detainees, the more money they make."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

19.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Auf dem Video sehen wir den mutmaßlichen Einsatz einer illegallen Schallkanone gegen die Demonstrierenden in Belgrad. Oder wie die Regierung es nennt, der "Was für eine Schallkanone, da istnichts passiert" Moment.

16.03.2025 10:01 — 👍 889    🔁 340    💬 40    📌 21
The top picture shows large crowds in Budapest. To the bottom right are protestors in Tbilisi. The final photo shows thousands in Budapest waving flags

The top picture shows large crowds in Budapest. To the bottom right are protestors in Tbilisi. The final photo shows thousands in Budapest waving flags

It isn’t just #SerbiaProtests today. People are taking to the streets across Europe to make their voice heard.

These were the scenes TODAY in:
- Bucharest, Romania🇷🇴
- Tbilisi, Georgia🇬🇪
- Budapest, Hungary🇭🇺

Countries & capitals united against Russia and in support of Europe.🇪🇺

#GeorgiaProtests

15.03.2025 20:01 — 👍 1237    🔁 479    💬 34    📌 48
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

15.03.2025 16:37 — 👍 77743    🔁 17782    💬 2698    📌 2816

So thankful for my Austrian, Czech, German, & Ukrainian Fulbrights. Recently spent time helping evaluate Ukrainian Fulbright proposals. What kind of anti-intellectual know-nothings would put this spectacular program on hold? A plague on akk your houses until the seventh generation.

08.03.2025 03:14 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Thank you! Hopefully later this year.

09.02.2025 08:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Sara🙂

12.01.2025 21:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm happy to announce that my book on early paper photography in central Europe "Inventors, Pirates, Epigones" is now available as an e-book at a.co/d/cl5PYJX; a sample can be viewed at www.academia.edu/126980382/In...

12.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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CfP - Mechanical Reproduction of Artefacts / 19thCentury - Umění/Art journal The peer-reviewed academic journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19th century. - Abstract...

#CfP The peer-reviewed journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19thC | Abstract submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Article submission deadline 30 Oct 2025
www.academia.edu/126618718/Cf...

27.12.2024 22:10 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Annual Conference 2025 Photography, Value, History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 16-17 June 2025 Where: Hybrid event, Online and at De Montfort University, Leicester. F…

The call for papers for the annual Photographic History Research Centre conference is out! This year we're thinking through the many meanings of value. "Photography, Value, History", 17-18 June, hybrid. Send us your proposal by 10 Jan! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #PhotoHist

18.11.2024 11:01 — 👍 28    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0
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A new project is born! Next two years, my colleagues and I will enjoy the privilege to research and handle an amazing collection of 19thC photographs from Polna Municipal Museum, including this tremendous daguerreotype tableau 👇 (83 × 64 cm) www.udu.cas.cz/en/projekty-... | www.muzeum-polna.cz

15.11.2024 16:35 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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It was such a great pleasure to attend the presentation of #MonikaFaber 's Festschrift last night; and not just because I owe her so much. Thanks to #WalterMoser, #AlbertinaMuseum, #PhotoinstitutBonartes and others who made it happen! (It was honour to contribute a short chapter.)

26.04.2024 10:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yesterday, I was happy to present a paper on photographic counterfeits /1840s-1860s at the conference ucl.cas.cz/udalosti/trh... | Hope the audience enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the research!😀 Thanks to Katerina Piorecka and Martin Hrdina.

02.03.2024 10:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't miss the series of talks on photography/photomechanical topics organized by the PhotoMatrix team in Prague | onsite + online | February-May 2024 photomatrix.cz/outputs

11.02.2024 09:53 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of AI in Museums, cover illustration a network graph in a spiral shape

Cover of AI in Museums, cover illustration a network graph in a spiral shape

The book "AI in Museums" is out! Edited by jobernha.bsky.social and sothie.bsky.social.

My contribution is about generating critical information about painting collections with AI. Read it in open access or buy here:
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6...

13.12.2023 13:56 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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