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Mariusz Stachowiak: Bo Żyje
Mariusz Stachowiak: Bo Żyje
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The photographs—18 x 24 cm enlargements—were everywhere. They lay on a shelf, pressed under several books, scattered on the floor, and on worn-out armchairs. Rinsed from the fixer, they circulated in a large plastic tub. The images on them were often too high-contrast, almost black and white. The contrast caused details in the light and dark areas of the image to disappear, amplifying the already intense message. This was so that one could see anything on the very poor paper on which the weekly Wprost was printed at the time. Entering the darkroom where the entire ritual took place, it was difficult not to brush against the damp, freshly developed film. Mariusz Stachowiak paid little attention to this. He was very comfortable with the technology.
He was born in 1956. He encountered documentary photography in 1975, thanks to Janusz Nowacki, when he participated in a documentary photography workshop. He later co-organized it. In 1978, he co-founded (with Janusz Nowacki and Jacek Śledzikowski) the diaporama studio: Studio DiM. After Mariusz Stachowiak's death, his friends took care of the negatives, making them available to the Pix.House Foundation. Due to its themes and sincerity, the collection proved to be incredibly interesting, the most important to be created in Poznań during the waning years of the Polish People's Republic, and one of the most important among those describing Poland in those years.
Title: Bo Żyje
Publisher: Pix.House, 2020
Photographer: Mariusz Stachowiak
Format: Hardcover
Text: Polish & English
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