One day, not long ago, Vesna Pavlović, a photographer and Vanderbilt University associate professor of art, got a notification that someone she didn’t know from Eugene, Oregon, had followed her on Instagram.
On her feed, Pavlović shares examples of her work, which has been shown at prestigious institutions all around the world, including a solo show at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Arts Center in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and in the public collection at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, also in Washington. Pavlović’s photograph Krajina Hotel, Negotin is in the collection at the National Gallery of Art.
Now, in part from that social media encounter, two of Pavlović’s photographs called Inside the Federal Executive Council Bu