Camilla Balbi

Camilla Balbi (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Photography Research Centre of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences. In 2023 she obtained her PhD in Visual and Media Studies at IULM University in Milan; she was 2020/2021 Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Department of German Studies. Camilla is interested in the intersections between media practices and different artistic languages, and her main research interest is early twentieth-century German-Jewish art theory and the media histories of photo-mechanical reproductions. She also writes and works on political art and eccentric visual cultures, working on the specificities of the Jewish gaze and the female and queer gaze.