Vesna Pavlovic Vesna Pavlovic

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Vesna Pavlovi: Stagecraft features four extensive bodies of the photographers work, spanning from the early 2000s to todayphotographs of the Yugoslav socialist modernist hotel spaces from her internationally recognized series Hotels; photographs of the ceremonial space of the Yugoslav Presidential Palace in Belgrade from the series Collection/Kolekcija and the recent Fabrics of Socialism and Sites of Memory series exploring the archives of the Museum of Yugoslav History. The book includes critical essays that contextualize and expound on Pavlovis unique treatment of the photographic medium, in which a photographic moment is expanded to include the conditions of image making, production, documentation, and representation.