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100 photographs, 1975-2006, is the author's set of photographs by Wojciech Zawadzki, consisting of five chapters: I Olszewskiego 11 (in Wroclaw, where the photographer lived) - photographs from 1975-2004; II Dedicated to living and deceased graphic artists, Karkonosze, 1986-1987; III My America, Jelenia Gora, circa 1997-2003; IV Książ Castle, 1987; V Karkonosze, 1975-1983. All texts in two language versions - Polish and English, translated by Agnieszka Adamek. Book dedicated by the author to Kryspin Sawicz and Marek Trzeciakowski.
Wojciech Zawadzki (1950) - practiced photography since the 1970s. He was instrumental in the constitution of the "elementary photography" trend (1970s) and "pure photography" (1980s). Member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers. Curator of the "Corridor" Gallery of the Jelenia Góra Cultural Center. Lecturer in photography at the Higher School of Photography in Warsaw, Zielona Gora, manager and lecturer at the Higher School of Photography in Jelenia Gora, now a two-year college called "Jelenia Gora School of Photography". He has also lectured abroad, including in Denmark. Zawadzki has exhibited at home and abroad. Between 1998 and 2008, he realized two major author's exhibitions "My America" and "Olszewskiego 11", which were presented in the most important galleries in Poland. His photographs are in the collections of the Art Museum in Lodz, the National Museum in Wroclaw, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Hunfeld (Germany), the Silesian Collection of Contemporary Art. He passed away on June 22, 2017 in Jelenia Gora.