Jerzy Lewczynski
dal 29/10/2008 al 14/1/2009
Segnalato da
29/10/2008
Jerzy Lewczynski
Polnisches Institut, Berlin
"Photography is a proletarian art - art on paper. I think every form of photography is important"
Photography is a proletarian art - art on paper. But paper can be shredded and thrown away. I think every form of photography is important. A film that has been cut out and put in an envelope. Anonymous, closed, concealed photography. Buried under the earth. I like to see what I do as archaeology. I take a picture, and the beams of light and its remains will be immortalised in the silver particles. If we could learn how to reproduce this light residue and this solar energy, we could rewind life to that moment. Perhaps we might succeed in regenerating life. Perhaps that would be the end of the world in a different way. I have started to try this out. I enlarge a negative as far as it can possibly go. I tried to get inside it. And in the quest for this light, this energy that once prevailed there, I reached a limit. The doubtful thing - I have a photo, but do I have this light as well? (Fragment of an interview, Jerzy Lewczynski talking to Magdalena Rybak)