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theorist of PHOS association Ivana Pástorová
theorist of PHOS association


was born in Košice in 1985. She is a graduate of the European Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Matej Bel in Banská Bystrica.

She has continuously dealt with the issue of photography by her participation in the student scientific and artistic activities, as well as in her bachelor thesis entitled Magic of the moment – a worth of the opinion evidence of the text of the photography, and in her master thesis with topic Contemporary Photography in the process of cultural modernization.

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ivana.pastorova@phosphotos.com
02.08.2011 Ivana Pástorová
About degradation of contemporary photography
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29.07.2011 Ivana Pástorová
published the text "Each voice could be heard"in Fotonoviny 16/2011 as a response to review "Voice which is not heard yet"- published by Michaela Paštéková in Fotonoviny 15/2011 - about an photo exhibition of Phos association called Metamorphoses, which was exposed
from 26.1 .- 27.2. 2011 in Central European House of Photography.
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13.02.2011 Phos-graphis
To be a photographer, it is not just about seeing but also about knowing... a few words about the meaning of light in photography.   View

09.01.2011 Formability of document – formlessness of society, or vice ver
About the meaning of valuable documentary photography for contemporary society and also about its new deforming inovation.
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27.09.2010 Devotion as testimony
Thinking about the testimony of women - nuns who were part of the incomprehensible decision of the power of communism and the interests of individuals. Women were condemned to deprivation of their identity - their habits.
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27.09.2010 Focused on Nižná Myšľa
which is changing to unoccupied, by the ruines of houses covered ground. The ground whose power we can not conquer. Stopping for a while, the evidence, and life must go on.
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27.09.2010 Kilometers of heavy metal
Kilometers of heavy metal that connects our worlds. We all know waiting for the right train, the atmosphere of excursory carriages and zingy wind that propels over the country. Railways by the eyes of photography and word. It was published in newspapers „Železničné ozveny“ (Railway echoes).
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27.09.2010 City Confrontations Commentary to the presentation, which took place in an outdoor park named „Horáreň“. Word and image offer a wide range of incentives for the reflection of our lives and the environment in which we live.
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27.09.2010 Fotografická história. 1840-1950
Exhibition Photographic HiStory. 1840-1950, From the Collection of Russian State Archives of Literature and Art, which is arranged by the Central European House of Photography by the occasion of the Month of Photography in Bratislava.
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14.06.2010 Civic Association PHOS
on 06/09/2010 at 17.30 p.m. in the Central European House of Photography in the open cultural dialogue presented to the general public its mission and artistic work of four photographers in the form of documentary photographs which bear the human message about person and affect the social issues of society. They express their views on these issues from different aspects. In a large public participation a pleasant atmosphere was created in which the pleasant presentation was structured as an open cultural interview with photography and about photography, with art and about art, with people and about people.
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04.06.2010 PHOS - on way for the decisive moment
A few words about the PHOS civic association which that are part of the new catalog.
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04.06.2010 Essays of photographers – About the beauty of the everydays
Text from the new catalog of PHOS association to individual projects and photos.
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31.05.2010 Contemporary Photography in the process of cultural modern
The master thesis which deals with the comtemporary photography as a visual medium of communication. The principal goal of this work is to mention on factors that led to a change of the status of contemporary photography under the influence of cultural modernization and the formation of consumer society. To explain what attributes meets the contemporary photography in different genres of mass media culture and capture the deformations which are the result of it. The empirical part of the work includes the research of this issue. The dialogue between photography and society makes the need to increase visual literacy, the society should be familiarized with the means that are used by photography. As well it is needed to refer to its manipulation which results in ever-present visual lies.
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