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JERZY LEWCZYŃSKI (1924-2014), "War-time dream photography," 1941

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five gelatin-silver prints - three prints 11 x 17.5 cm and 17 x 12 cm and 8.5 x 12 cm

signed, dated, author's stamp, title and number in series on back (on four)


"During the grim night of occupation in 1941, photography proved to be a means of virtual escape from tragic reality! From a 6x9 cm negative of a photo in a meadow with a Friend, I cut out silhouettes with scissors, then copy by contact on a found 6x9 cm negative of a naval vessel. In this way I "transport" myself to a distant unknown world. Jurek Lewczynski age 16".


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Using found, borrowed, forgotten photographs in the vast majority of his work, Lewczynski created works relating to issues of memory, past and symbol. He was the author of the term "archeology of photography," which he explained as "an activity whose purpose is to discover, study and comment on events, facts, situations happening in the past, in the so-called photographic past." He graduated from the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. Since 1951 he was a member of the Gliwice Photographic Society, and since 1956. - a member of the ZPAF. In 1959, together with Bronislaw Schlabs and Zdzislaw Beksinski, he organized the famous Closed Show, called Antiphotography. Author of Anthology ofPolish Photography 1839-1989 (Lucrum, 1999). More important monographic publications of the artist are Jerzy Lewczynski. Archaeology of Photography. Works from 1941-2005 (Kropka, 2005) and Jerzy Lewczyński. Memory of the Image (Museum in Gliwice, 2012). His works are in the collections of the Museum in Gliwice, the Art Museum in Lodz, the National Museum in Wroclaw, among others.

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PLON VOL. 1. collage, editing and other gestures in photography
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