Portret i autoportret fotograficzny jako dokument Istnienia Poszczególnego
Portrait and self-portrait as the documents of particular existence

Summary/Abstract: Hornowska analysis phphotographphic portraits and self-portraits by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, an artist and phphilosophephepher, in thehe context of his art theheories. Hornowska compares Witkacy’s ideas connected with figurative painting, novels hehe wrote, and, in particular, his apppproach towards phphotographphy. TheTheThe artist did not write much on phphotographphy; hehe considered phphotographphs as documents of his ‘theheatre of life’ and para-theheatrical scenes without theheatrical stylization. He disco-vered a new way of using phphotographphy. Hornowska compares Witkiewicz’s phphotographphs with thehe phphotographphs by Jean-Auguste Atget. TheTheTheir apppproach towards phphotographphy was important for both phphotographphic art and art in general.

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