JAROSŁAW STANISŁAWSKI (1931)
One of the doyens of the Poznań photographic society. He had his first success in Poland as early as 1949, when he won an award at the National Photography Exhibition of the Polish Photographic Society in Poznań, and took part in a vital exhibition of Polish photography entitled Peace Prevails, National Museum in Warsaw (1949). Member of ZPAF since 1951. In 1955, he received the AFIAP title from the International Federation of Photographic Art (1955). From 1968, with short breaks, Stanisławski chaired the Wielkopolska Branch of ZPAF for 15 years. His pictures have featured at a number of solo and group exhibitions. In 1988, he was granted honorary ZPAF membership for his services to Polish photography.
1960s
gelatin silver print, 39.4 × 29.5 cm,
titled and artist’s stamp on the reverse
vintage
Stanisławski is known for his compact compositions of fragments of landscape, architecture, and small objects in which he reassembled reality into geometrically or otherwise ordered sets of visual elements, reminiscent of abstract painting. As Maciej Szymanowicz wrote about Stanisławski’s works in the context of the latter’s fascination with, but also submission to the formal style propagated by Edward Hartwig: "The strongly aestheticising works ostentatiously renounced ideological issues and formed a strictly formalist project - as socialist realism theorists would put it."
JAROSŁAW STANISŁAWSKI (1931)
One of the doyens of the Poznań photographic society. He had his first success in Poland as early as 1949, when he won an award at the National Photography Exhibition of the Polish Photographic Society in Poznań, and took part in a vital exhibition of Polish photography entitled Peace Prevails, National Museum in Warsaw (1949). Member of ZPAF since 1951. In 1955, he received the AFIAP title from the International Federation of Photographic Art (1955). From 1968, with short breaks, Stanisławski chaired the Wielkopolska Branch of ZPAF for 15 years. His pictures have featured at a number of solo and group exhibitions. In 1988, he was granted honorary ZPAF membership for his services to Polish photography.