One can say in the shortest terms: an anthology like no other... The book was published as a scholarly work, so it also has an extensive bibliography, an index of people and an abbreviated index of photographic techniques. And here is an excerpt from the Foreword by Witold Kanicki, which explains a lot: To meet the need to lay the foundations for further research, this anthology attempts to collect and systematize texts on photography written by Polish...
In the late afternoon of October 19, the opening of the works of the just-concluded XXIV edition of the Biennale of Photography in Analog Techniques and Digital Image Processing took place at the PIK Gallery of the Ostrów Cultural Center. The jury of the competition this time did not award the Grand Prix, but the four authors awarded with equal honors showed not only a high level of photographic craftsmanship, but also an interesting artistic offer in the presented...
On June 9 Jedrzej Paszak decided to pass away on his own terms. Jędrek's secular funeral (that's how his friends and acquaintances referred to him) took place on Wednesday, June 14 in Wągrowiec. Gathered at the grave were those closest to him from his childhood and Wągrowiec youth, friends from the photography collectives "Świetlica" and "Ciemnica", acquaintances, there were also people with whom he worked and collaborated....
The opening of Franciszek Kupczyk's exhibition took place on May 26 at the CKiS Wieża Ciśnień Gallery as part of the 3rd Konin Photography Festival FOCUS NAD WARTA. The photographs presented on that day are a continuation of the already twenty-year-long Kameduli project, initiated with the publication of an album entitled Kameduli in the Service of God and People and the 2003 exhibition Ora et Labora. The motivation for my photographs...
Ostrzeszow photographer for more than 40 years, born in 1954, who made his debut as a photojournalist in 1974 during his studies at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, was admitted to the ZPAF in 1980, to return permanently to his hometown, Bobrowniki nad Prosną, after December 13, 1981, where he started a family and from where he set out on the long journey to the present state of...
- With a certain shyness I took out of the drawer my text from years ago, which, I believe, has not grown old, because the Boguslaw Biegowski exhibition analyzed in it, one of the most important in his oeuvre, has never been shown in large professional galleries, except for the episode in Wegrowork, which I refer to in my text - so began the letter of Krzysztof Szymoniak, who...
Much more can probably be said on the subject by art historians or cultural scholars involved in the preservation and study of the photographic archives left behind by photojournalists employed until 1989 in the editorial offices of local weekly newspapers, covering mainly medium-sized cities and their adjacent regions, since the local so-called county press (in today's form of municipalities and...
The idea was, as they say, simple, but in the end not so ingenious, to achieve in the art of photography a new, hitherto rare aesthetic quality, and perhaps hidden in it (in this quality) an interesting or novel rhetorical message. Well, Michal Sobczak, from January 1 to December 31, 2021, daily took (from...