About
I am a photo-historian working as a research fellow at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague where I also lead the CVF – Photography Research Centre team. My research focuses on 19th- and early 20th-century photography and early history of photomechanical printing. Education
PhD History of Art, Masaryk University, Brno, 2008
MA History of Art, Masaryk University, Brno, 2001 Blog Posts
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Hello world!
(PETRA TRNKOVA | historian of photography,
2020-12-06)
Publications
Electrifying Daguerreotypes: On correlations between electricity and photography around 1840, History of Photography 2021.
Photography in 1848: Five case studies from Central Europe, History of Photography, vol. 43, 2019, no. 3, pp. 233-250.
The Unbearable (and Irresistible) Charm of “Duplicates”, in J. Bärnighausen, C. Caraffa, S. Klamm, F. Schneider, and P. Wodtke (eds.), Photo-Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo Archives, Berlin 2019, pp. 245-260.
Exposing a City: Archaeologists, architects and tourists in Prague, in K. Bečková – M. Přikrylová – P. Trnková, The Earliest Photographs of Prague 1850-1870, Prague 2019, pp. 11-31.
The Beginnings of Photography in Central Europe: Friedrich Franz and the first daguerreotypes in Brno, History of Photography, vol. 39, 2015, no. 2, pp. 121-141.
