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...
Rafal Swosinski is one of those photographers who, instead of "philosophizing", simply prefer to photograph. And that he does not lack talent, beautiful photographs come out.... We are not interested today in the entire oeuvre of this author (there will still be time for that...), but only in a certain episode in his photography, namely the photos he took in Górka Klasztorna near Lobezenica....
Opening on Monday, July 11 at 17:00, exhibition until August 31, 2022 / Zamosc City Hall Photo Gallery, Rynek Wielki 13 Łódź 1966 "f/5.6" These photos will be a discovery - many of them are published for the first time. Black and white, taken with Leica, with a 50mm lens. Mostly with an aperture of 5.6 (hence the title of the album and exhibition). Lodz, 1960s....
My first feeling after seeing some of the photographs sent by Maciej Bonk to the Youth Portfolio was: I want more! I immediately contacted the author with a request to send more photos, He sent, and thus our eyes can enjoy longer. Although the author is a young man, looking at his photographs I had the impression that his fascination with "nature" in the broadest sense, also...
The United States of America is - in addition to everything else - also the realm of photography. As early as 1888, Georges Eastman launched a camera capable of taking 100 photographs. From that moment, photography began its massive career as a national hobby, and on this basis the Kodak company built its empire. To be fair, it must be added that at the same time Americans...
On January 21, 2022, the exhibition "Paper Landscapes," featuring photographs, installations and objects by Kamil Myszkowski, opened at the Sielecki Castle Art Center in Sosnowiec. The exhibition was on display until April 16, 2022. The starting point for the exhibition "Paper Landscapes" is a series of photographs I have been implementing successively since 2018, in which I refer to classical photography....
When photographing the places that inspire him, Maciej Kuszela also tries to emphasize the personal nature of this inspiration. Therefore, the final form of these images is usually the result of various additional manipulations, which may be surprising when juxtaposed with the fact that the term "photojournalist" appears so often in the author's biography. However, it is understandable that when a photograph is created out of a purely personal need, it...
Writing that Wojciech Zawadzki was a great photographer is the same truism as writing that a great poet was, for example, a certain Slovakian. This everyone knows. Like any "seriousness," Wojciech Zawadzki continues to have an impact even after his death, which came for him in 2017. Less than five years later, or more precisely, from February 8 to March 18, 2022, in the extraordinary...
Many Polish photographers after World War II until now have been trying to tackle one of the most difficult subjects of Polish reality - Silesia. How to present its synthetic vision, and above all the people and their problems, as well as the degraded environment and architecture? Such an attempt was also made by Jerzy Wierzbicki, who had already faced the subject of...
This article had a chance to go down in the history of "Fotografia Quarterly" as interesting and beautiful, but it passed only as interesting. Its protagonist, Tomasz Gudzowaty, sent a dozen of his beautiful photographs to the editorial office, but at the same time asked for the text of the article, which was written by Renata Gluza, then a journalist for the "Press" monthly. And it began... - You'd better not show him the article before....