Po trzecie – fotograf, czyli jak interpretować twórczość fotograficzną Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza
In the third place a photographer; in other words, how to interpret the photographic creativity of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the article comprises a description of the current state of research, in which it becomes discernible that the attitude of researchers to Witkiewicz’s pictures is not entirely defined. They cannot come to any clearly defined approach to interpreting his photographs from the 1920s and 1930s, in which he made himself a subject, although these pictures tended not to be strictly self-portraits. The authoress deals with Witkacy’s photographic work in relation to his earlier and contemporaneous achievements mainly of Polish photography (the movement of photoamateurs with the Lwów Lovers of Photographic Art Club, 1891 and Warsaw Photographic Society, 1901, as well as the distinguished photographers Łukasz Dobrzański and Włodzimierz Kirchner), and she poses the question why after 1914 Witkiewicz stopped using the camera. There is no straightforward answer. It is likely that he did not acknowledge photography as an art form, refusing to recognise in it a means of artistic expression for himself. It is obvious that the two fields in which he did express himself were painting and literature, both proving for him to be mutually fulfilling, while the third one of photography remained of marginal importance to his creativity. Digitalized and reedited material

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