Description
Digital photography versus the traditional analog ways of photography. In 2009 it was still possible to write and think that way, because today it seems that everything sooner or later becomes digitally reproduced, preserved. No less different are the works presented in this issue of the quarterly. To begin with, two types of "photographic scrolls" created by Chinese artists Luo Yongjin and Yang Yongliang. The former juxtaposes large-format photos into a single image, while the latter creates new landscapes from photos of buildings, which, like classic Chinese scrolls, are also red-stamped and calligraphed as tradition dictates. "New Europe" is a project by Lukasz Trzcinski that shows the countries of Eastern and Central Europe 20 years after the fall of Communism. In Sandy Skoglund's photos we see surreal situations, interiors and yet these are all realistically created settings. Adam Mazur talks to Martin Bogren about his black and white "photo notes." Marja Pirilä takes pictures of images that are created with a camera obscura on the walls of the rooms - such images within an image and yet upside down - quite confusing to describe - but it is such photographic photography. Inhuman, cool with the simplicity of the gaze are the digitally generated portrait-snas of Oleg DOU. We show peculiar, documentary, cathartic rituals from Igor Omulecki's "Sauna." In "Portofolio of the Young," Pawel Blecki covers littered public space with "Scale of Gray." On the accompanying DVD and in Dorota Luczak's description of the annual exhibition of graduation works by photography students from the then still Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. A report on the photo event in Arles, which took place in 2009 for the 40th time; the Biennale of Photography in Prague, the 3rd Foto Art Festival in Bielsko-Biala, the exhibition "DoNosy - Poland 1980-89 through the eyes of leading Poznan documentary filmmakers. An account of adolescence (until the breakthrough)"; Collector's Photography (exhibition + auction), + book reviews. We mention Jadwiga Sornik and part of her Wroclaw archive, she probably photographed before WWI until the first years after WWII. We recall Marek Pisecki and his photographs, miniatures, reportage. In the series "Theory of Photography" we publish for the first time translated into Polish the text of André Gunthert "Without Retouching. The history of the photographic myth".
Artists of the issue: Luo Yongjin, Yang Yongliang, Łukasz Trzcinski, Sandy Skoglund, Martin Bogren, Marja Pirilä, Oleg DOU, Igor Omulecki, Paweł Błęcki, Jadwiga Sornik, Marek Piasecki
Authors of the texts: Bogdan Konopka, Marek Janczyk, Marianna Michalowska, Adam Mazur, Waldemar Sliwczynski, Irina Chmyrieva, Witold Kanicki, Aleksandra Sliwczynska-Kupidura, Dorota Luczak, Katarzyna Majak, Jakub Bąk, Monika Piotrowska, Lilianna Lewandowska, Adam Sobota, Krzysztof Jurecki, André Gunthert