Photographic Portraiture from Julia Margaret Cameron to Yousuf Karsh | Art of Photography | lecture.

Photographic portraiture as a separate field of art was born in the second half of the 19th century. One of the first people involved in this field of art photography was Julia Margaret Cameron. The story of her work is the starting point of the next meeting of the “Art of Photography” series.

Be with us at WOAK to hear passionate stories and little-known tidbits about the origins of photographic portraiture. For decades, photographers were accused of using the means developed by drawing, printmaking and painting.

– However, this was a natural path for the development of photographic art,” explains Stanislaw Jasinski, who prepared and will lead the meeting. – Inspiration from Italian, Dutch and English painting or the literature of the time can be seen in the work of Julia Margaret Cameron from 1863-1874. The work of such secured her status as a forerunner of the global style, called pictorialism.

A different way of portraiture was presented by Yousuf Karsch from 1940-1960, another hero of the story. Also presented will be a project to create a group portrait of German residents, carried out by August Sander in 1908-1934, and Zofia Rydet’s “Sociological Record” project from 1970-1980, which in turn was a group portrait of elderly people living in southern Poland at the time.

The lecture in the series “Art of Photography” will be given by Stanislaw Jasinski – photographer and photography instructor, member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers. An expert on the history of photography and a collector of antique cameras and other artifacts related to this art.