A pictorialist and one of the most distinguished Polish photographers of the interwar period. Connected with Poznań and Cracow. A lawyer by profession (public prosecutor in Poznań, and after 1932, a judge of the Court of Appeals in Cracow). In the 1920s, he co-founded the Photographic Society in Poznań and the Polish Photographic Review journal (Polski Przegląd Fotograficzny). He is a representative of the so-called Poznań Triangle (together with Tadeusz Cyprian and Tadeusz Wański). Member of the Polish Photographic Club. In 1938, he received the Gold Cross of Merit for his photographic activity. ZPAF member after the war.
1923
gelatin silver print, 23 x 16.5 cm,
date on the reverse,
edition: unspecified (two differently cropped prints
of this negative are known to exist)
vintage print
Portrait of Helena Lebedowicz-Kwaśniewska, Gardulski`s wife`s sister.
Individual exhibitions commemorating the centenary of the artist`s birth: ZPAF Gallery, Cracow; Gallery of the Photographic Society in Poznań (1985).
Publication: Polish Photography in the 20th Century, ZPAF (2006).
A pictorialist and one of the most distinguished Polish photographers of the interwar period. Connected with Poznań and Cracow. A lawyer by profession (public prosecutor in Poznań, and after 1932, a judge of the Court of Appeals in Cracow). In the 1920s, he co-founded the Photographic Society in Poznań and the Polish Photographic Review journal (Polski Przegląd Fotograficzny). He is a representative of the so-called Poznań Triangle (together with Tadeusz Cyprian and Tadeusz Wański). Member of the Polish Photographic Club. In 1938, he received the Gold Cross of Merit for his photographic activity. ZPAF member after the war.