Author of many documentary features and portraits of people of art, culture and politicians. ZPAF member since 1958. He started photographing during World War II. After the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, he was deported into forced labour to Germany. He studied art history at the Catholic University in Lublin and then at Warsaw University. During his studies, imprisoned for alleged participation in an "anti-state conspiracy." After the thaw, he worked for such periodicals as Stolica, Świat (weeklies) and Polska,Ty i Ja (monthlies). Rolke was also a fashion photographer for Przekrój. In 1970-1980, he lived in Germany and photographed for Stern, Spiegel and Die Zeit, gaining international acclaim for his Fischmarkt series. After returning to Warsaw in 1980, he initiated and produced group exhibitions, among others, in Stara Galeria ZPAF. In the mid-1990s, Rolke started collaborating with Gazeta Wyborcza, where he has published photo stories from Poland and abroad (e.g. Ukraine, Tunisia). Some of his numerous exhibitions include: The World is a Theatre, Violence, Sex, Nostalgia. In 2001, he produced the Neighbour project, jointly with Chris Niedenthal, which was inspired by Tomasz Gross` book and Agnieszka Arnold`s film under the same title.
1965
gelatin silver print, 17.3 x 19.8 cm,
author`s label on the reverse,
edition: unspecified
vintage print
Tadeusz Rolke was a pioneer of fashion photography in Poland and one of the first photographers to shoot pret-a-porter fashion shows in Paris. His pictures are not a simple documentation the events, but rather an attempt to analyse the very phenomenon of posing at fashions shows and their backstage and sociological context.
Author of many documentary features and portraits of people of art, culture and politicians. ZPAF member since 1958. He started photographing during World War II. After the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, he was deported into forced labour to Germany. He studied art history at the Catholic University in Lublin and then at Warsaw University. During his studies, imprisoned for alleged participation in an "anti-state conspiracy." After the thaw, he worked for such periodicals as Stolica, Świat (weeklies) and Polska,Ty i Ja (monthlies). Rolke was also a fashion photographer for Przekrój. In 1970-1980, he lived in Germany and photographed for Stern, Spiegel and Die Zeit, gaining international acclaim for his Fischmarkt series. After returning to Warsaw in 1980, he initiated and produced group exhibitions, among others, in Stara Galeria ZPAF. In the mid-1990s, Rolke started collaborating with Gazeta Wyborcza, where he has published photo stories from Poland and abroad (e.g. Ukraine, Tunisia). Some of his numerous exhibitions include: The World is a Theatre, Violence, Sex, Nostalgia. In 2001, he produced the Neighbour project, jointly with Chris Niedenthal, which was inspired by Tomasz Gross` book and Agnieszka Arnold`s film under the same title.