On the book:
‘After reading Wojciech Nowicki I felt like Gargantua, I had only read The Bottom of the Eye, and I had read twelve, or perhaps a thousand one hundred and twenty one other books’.
Marek Bieńczyk (from the Introduction)

‘Wojciech Nowicki looks at photographs with sensitivity, and tries to understand them. He knows a great deal about photography, and experiences it even more. He experiences it, but does not succumb to silence. From this delicate tension between broad erudition and sudden bursts of sensuality has come one of the most beautiful Polish books on photography’.
Michał Paweł Markowski

‘The text of the book is rich, the descriptions of the photographs are tangible and stir the imagination. I congratulate the author’.
Bogdan Dziworski

‘This book was not written by an intellectual who became interested in photography and is using academic tools to dissect his new hobby into basic factors. Wojciech Nowicki writes about photography – or rather about particular photographs – from the inside-out, in ways that concern them only. He understands how these photographs work and what they’re made of, and on this foundation he stages his intellectual acrobatics. Such an approach doesn’t come round too often. A super book’.
Kuba Dąbrowski

On the author:
Wojciech Nowicki (b. 1968) works as a journalist, translator, curator of photography exhibitions and a photographer. He publishes in ‘Tygodnik Powszechny’. He is a culinary reviewer for Krakow’s ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’. He belongs to the Photomonth in Krakow program council, and is a co-founder of the Imago Mundi Foundation. He lives in Krakow.
 

10.05.2010, 6:00 p.m.
A meeting with Wojciech Nowicki, author of The Bottom of the Eye (Publisher: Czarne) - only Polish
Camelot Gallery & Imago Mundi Foundation Gallery, 17 św. Tomasza st.

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