Reflections on the occasion of the exhibition of Sally Jaffé (1845-1920) at the National Museum in Poznan - November 7, 2021 - January 30, 2022, curated by Ewa Hornowska. The article appeared in two parts - in "Kwartalnik Fotografia" No. 40 and 41. Part 1 Photo Sally Jaffé, Fragment of scene III from the courtyard of the old people's shelter in Poznań, photo from ca. 1899....
History of photography
vernissage 12.10.2024 / exhibition until 04.02.2024 / Museum of Warsaw / Old Town Square 32 Straight from the Pompidou Center in Paris to Warsaw comes an exhibition that reveals the figure and work of Moshe Vorobeichic, one of the leading European avant-garde artists of the 1920s - photographer, graphic artist, painter. He graduated from the Bauhaus, became active in Paris and there adopted the pseudonym Moi Ver. He repeatedly...
If he could, he would have taken pictures of the Dalai Lama, Picasso and Kennedy. He believed that laughter had no value in portraiture. He loved the sense of mystery and loved to photograph in black and white. He appreciated color in the work of Mario Sorrenti and Paola Roversi, although he thought it didn't penetrate the skin as much as black and white. No wonder. After all, he grew up with all those American reporters....
Please join us this Thursday at 6pm at the Poznan Lazega for a meeting around the photographs of Bronislaw Preibisz and Roman Stefan Ulatowski - photographers of artists in the vanguard of efforts to recognize photography as a serious field of art! There will be another podcast about them, and for now we also invite you to watch and listen to the first episode of the podcast about Helena Hulewiczova and earlier...
On July 25, 2008, after a long and hard battle with cancer, Ireneusz "Eryk" Zjeżdżałka passed away, he was less than 36 years old. He was the editor-in-chief of "Kwartalnik Fotografia," as well as a promising and already established photographer, curator, critic, animator and lecturer on photography. Many young adepts and lovers of photography do not know Eric's work at all, or know it poorly, so on the occasion of the round...
The Board of the Wielkopolska Branch of ZPAF convened the first post-sandem meeting of members on Thursday, January 5. As I was driving to this meeting I received sad news - on the same day passed away the Man to whom this branch of ZPAF, and in general, the entire photographic environment in Poznan owes so much. It was thanks to his determination that it was in Poznan that photography found its way into the salons....