These photos will be a discovery. They were taken between
1961 and 2004, but many of them are published for the first time. Black and
white, shot with Leica and Rollei cameras, with standard lenses. Most often set
at f / 5.6 aperture. Łódź, the 1960s. People on the streets, in tenement house
backyards, in a park, in an amusement park. Faces are expressive, making faces,
gestures. A kind of social game that looks like a dance, a sort of love ritual
with a tinge of the circus. From the Poniatowski Park in Łódź we move on to New
York's Central Park. From there on to the Balkans. An astonishing world. At
first sight, it seems that these black-and-white, generic scenes, showing the
streets and backyards, document a kind of alien civilization. But even though
the images are full of custom-related details, they do not offer a
sociologist's point of view. Poland is not the topic. Neither is another
criticism of the communist Polish People's Republic or a nostalgic return to
the youth. Rather, the tension arises here from the photographer's relationship
with reality. Regardless of when and where the pictures were taken, each of
them is a complete, world that shows itself to us, captured at a unique moment.
Publisher: Migavka (2017)
Language: English
240 pages / 30x23cm (12x9") / hardcover / 180 black and
white photographs by Bogdan Dziworski / preface by Wojtek Wieteska / essay by
Tadeusz Sobolewski / essay by Adam Mazur / texts in polish & English
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