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DOI article:Jackiewicz, Danuta: The art of photography: portrait, landscape and reportage in Polish 19th century photography
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10. Józef Czechowicz, Churchat Żodziszki, a page fromthe Album of the Banks of Viliya, 1870's
also many fine well-composed landscapes, while some are in addition interesting from a sociolo-
gical point of view, e.g. an open-air portrait of the Lanckoroński family with servants and a por-
trait of the painter Jacek Malczewski at the easel as a guest at Rozdół.
The exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw made us look at Polish 19th csntury pho-
tos as works of art which appealed to us not only duc to their artistic merit but also as documents;
we view them as a fascinating record of the past and perceive in them both historie value and
beauty. I believe that in both these aspects of photography — as objects of art and as documents
— we succeeded in conveying the charm and magie of suspended time and the uniqueness of
this new field of art.
Translated by Bogna Piotrowska
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also many fine well-composed landscapes, while some are in addition interesting from a sociolo-
gical point of view, e.g. an open-air portrait of the Lanckoroński family with servants and a por-
trait of the painter Jacek Malczewski at the easel as a guest at Rozdół.
The exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw made us look at Polish 19th csntury pho-
tos as works of art which appealed to us not only duc to their artistic merit but also as documents;
we view them as a fascinating record of the past and perceive in them both historie value and
beauty. I believe that in both these aspects of photography — as objects of art and as documents
— we succeeded in conveying the charm and magie of suspended time and the uniqueness of
this new field of art.
Translated by Bogna Piotrowska
51