The photographic image is not something invented, but something found ...
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Pawel Zak is one of those photographers who, with incredible lightness, can use what the old masters used to call "the light of the image." The repeatedly shown and awarded series of his photos entitled "Stories" is an eloquent example of great visual culture in an artist whose works completely belong to the latest currents in contemporary photography. "Stories" is, in my opinion, a multi-layered ...
"White and Red" is a long-term social project of documentary filmmaker Marek Lapis, who uses the medium of photography to describe how the colors white and red function in the consciousness of society. In times of transformation and turbulent contemporary social and political changes, these colors take on special significance in public space. The photos that make up the publication "White and Red" come from about 200 trips throughout...
Marika Kuzmicz: Margaret, let's talk about your life so far and your relationship with art, which started when you were a child. You had extraordinary parents. Can you tell at least a piece of their story and thus about your first contacts with art? Malgorzata Potocka: I had a rather luxurious situation - in the sense that I didn't face incomprehension. When...
Julia Stachura: What is your first memory related to photography? Kamila Kobierzynska: I could echo Marcel Proust - we deal with what we lack. When I was a child I liked to look through photographs by pulling them out of drawers and boxes from time to time, but no one ever told me about them - I just looked at the pictures. I remember that one ...
There is probably no photographer who has not taken a self-portrait. The most famous among the pioneers of the invention of photography was certainly Hippolyte Bayard, who as early as 1840, photographing himself as a "suicide," expressed his great regret to the whole world that it was not to him that the palm of precedence in the invention of photography was awarded, but to some Daguerre or Talbot. Also, later artists very...
On the memorable January 8, 1959, Fidel triumphantly entered Havana. He had won his "revolutión." I didn't get to talk to him the first time, but I did manage to exchange a few words with Raul Castro, Fidel's brother. Raul told me that in the city of Camaguey they would be trying and dismembering counter-revolutionaries and would I be willing to witness these events? Very politely...
On Friday, August 12, 2022, Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, one of the most recognizable figures in Polish photography, died at the age of 85. "Kwartalnik Fotografia" wrote about the Wroclaw-based artist many times between 2000 and 2012, and to check it out and get to all the articles it is best to look at the Great Personal Index, which is part of Krzysztof Szymoniak's book, Without Aperture - 13 years....
Photography in itself is never the end. Photography captures the one-of-a-kind "Here and Now," because, after all, the second before the photo is taken and the second after the photo is taken, the world is completely different. It does not end, whether it is reflected on paper or already beyond the sight of man. It continues even without our knowledge. That's why photography, especially photography....
A book dedicated to the work of Zbigniew Tomaszczuk was published by the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts already in 2018, but the book reached me only now, a few days ago, so I can write a few words of my complement only four years after the publication of the study. The publication was prepared very carefully and provides a comprehensive overview of the artistic achievements of Professor Tomaszczuk. Very insightful articles...