Łukasz Gorczyca, Adam Mazur, Wojciech Nowicki | 05.06.2015

Marian Sobański, Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka, 1956 (photograph on the dust jacket by Centralna Agencja Fotograficzna)

MASTERS SERIES meeting (PL)

Łukasz Gorczyca, art historian. With Michał Kaczyński, he founded the artistic magazine “Raster”(1995–2003), and then a gallery and publishing house with the same name. Creator of exhibitions and author of publications on art. Co-authored the novel W połowie puste. Życie i twórczość Oskara Dawickiego(2010) and the book D.O.M. polski (2012).

Adam Mazur, art historian and American studies specialist, lectures at the University of Arts in Poznań. Exhibition curator and author of publications on art and photography, including the books Kocham fotografię,Historie fotografii w Polsce 1839–2009 and Decydujący moment. Nowe zjawiska w fotografii polskiej po roku 2000. Along with Jakub Banasiak and Karolina Plinta, he heads the magazine Szum.

Since 2013, Łukasz Gorczyca and Adam Mazur have been carrying out research on photo books, available on their blog, polishphotobook.tumblr.com.

Wojciech Nowicki, curator of photo exhibitions, writer, journalist, member of the Krakow Photomonth board, co-founder of the Imago Mundi photography foundation. Publications include Dno oka. Eseje o fotografii[Bottom of the eye. Essays about photography] and Salki [Rooms]. The author of monographic photo books devoted to outstanding photographers: Jerzy Lewczyński. Memory of the Image and Niepokoje Wilhelma von Blandowskiego [Wilhelm von Blandowski’s anxieties]. As a curator he often creates visual essays, most recently Radiation, on the role of text in photography, at Krakow Photomonth 2014. He has also staged monographic exhibitions of artists including Jerzy Lewczyński, Michał Greim, and Wilhelm von Blandowski, and numerous Krakow Photomonth exhibitions.

National Museum in Krakow, Main Building (The Samurai Room)

al. 3 Maja 1

5.06.2015, 18:00