Graduate of the School of Rural Management in Snopkovo near Lviv. Rydet became interested in photography in the mid 1950s. She probably took her first photographs under the influence of her elder brother, Tadeusz. She was linked to the Gliwice Photographic Society and drew inspiration from reportage and modern photography (inter alia, Jerzy Lewczyński and Zdzisław Beksiński), portrait photography and macro photography. Using the photographic medium, she tried to create an image of society, in particular the rural community. She extracted dignity from every-day life; the heroes of her works are ordinary people, who grow to the rank of central figures, creators of their own world. Major series: The Little Ones, Time of Passing, The World of Feelings and Imagination, Presence, Sociological Record - the most important and bulky project.
1975-1979
photomontage, gelatin silver print, 39.5 x 30 cm,
description and author`s stamp on the reverse,
edition: unspecified
vintage print
The theme of maternity and expectations often recur in the later works of Rydet, primarily in her series of photomontages. The artist worked on the Maternity series between 1975 and 1979. It was published in the album entitled The World of Feelings and Imagination of Zofia Rydet, KAW, Warsaw (1979).
Selected exhibitions of the series: Zofia Rydet. Photographs, Museum of Art, Łódź (1999); Zofia Rydet. Sentimental Photomontage, Asymetria Gallery, Warsaw (2008).
Graduate of the School of Rural Management in Snopkovo near Lviv. Rydet became interested in photography in the mid 1950s. She probably took her first photographs under the influence of her elder brother, Tadeusz. She was linked to the Gliwice Photographic Society and drew inspiration from reportage and modern photography (inter alia, Jerzy Lewczyński and Zdzisław Beksiński), portrait photography and macro photography. Using the photographic medium, she tried to create an image of society, in particular the rural community. She extracted dignity from every-day life; the heroes of her works are ordinary people, who grow to the rank of central figures, creators of their own world. Major series: The Little Ones, Time of Passing, The World of Feelings and Imagination, Presence, Sociological Record - the most important and bulky project.