PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOW — 2012
JERZY LEWCZYĹSKI
JERZY LEWCZYĹSKI. MEMORY OF THE IMAGE
Portrait of N.N. (Portrait Found on the Street), 1970
From the collection of Museum in Gliwice
Jerzy LewczyĹski (1924) is one of Poland’s greatest photographers. Together with ZdzisĹaw BeksiĹski and BronisĹaw Schlabs, he co-founded the school known as “anti-photography.” Their photos, presented at a “closed showing” in 1959, were deemed to be brutal and anti-aesthetic. The next important stage was “archaeology of photography,” images based on found or borrowed photographs. This current also includes works created relatively recently, most frequently photographical reproductions of various documents—a near-utopian attempt to record reality in its most minute manifestations. This attempt is accompanied by the artist’s conviction of the absolute need to spread photography. LewczyĹski considers the medium to be a universal instrument that serves to record and explain the world.
Alongside iconic photos, the exhibition also featured many that have never previously been displayed.
The photographs are from the collection of the Gliwice Museum.
JERZY LEWCZYĹSKI. MEMORY OF THE IMAGE
Curator: Wojciech Nowicki
Grand opening: 20.05.2012, 1 p.m.
National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1
18.05–1.07.2012, TUE–SAT: 10 a.m.–6 p.m., SUN: 10 a.m.–4 p.m., CLOSED: 7.06
_1970_72dpi-2.jpg "Portrait of N.N. (Portrait Found on the Street), 1970")
