Lech Lechowicz

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Lech Lechowicz (1952) - historian and critic of photography, curator, lecturer, long-time curator at the Museum of Art in Lodz in the Department of Photography and Visual Techniques (1977-1996). Author of more than a hundred texts on photography, many of them of a pioneering nature. A lecturer at the National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz and at the Marian Schmidt School of Photography in Warsaw, he has also previously taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz and in Poznan. Co-founder of the Polish Corporation of Photography (1995); Association of the History of Photography (1989/90), Scientific Society of Photography (2001). He co-founded and co-edited the magazine "OBSCURA" (1981-1989), which uniquely addressed and critically discussed the issues of media in art during the communist era. He also wrote for "Photography Quarterly." His "History of Photography, Part 1/ 1839-1939" came out in 2013.
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1 article published

Archeo KF Essays Artists

Mariusz Hermanowicz - photography as a journey

Many metaphors are used in relation to photography to convey the nature of its ambiguous and intriguing imagery. Some of them refer to its relation to time: photography as embalming time, photography as history, as a record of past time. Others refer to its pictorial relation to the world, to the places pictured, and embrace photography as a window or as a mirror....

ByLech Lechowicz29 April 20220Komentarzy