Hartwig’s cosmopolitan artistic manifesto was the first of its kind and the most influential Polish photobook of the second half of the twentieth century. The book makes symbolic allusion, via its title, to pioneering photographer Jan Bułhak’s artistic photography programme and expands it in the direction of innovative formal solutions, with the primacy of visual quality over documentary, in a manner characteristic of the subjective photographic trend in the nineteen fifties.
A second edition, with minor revisions, was published in 1963.
Łukasz Gorczyca, Tematy i wariacje. Książki fotograficzne Edwarda Hartwiga [w:] Edward Hartwig. Fotografiki, Warszawa 2019, s. 171-203; https://culture.pl/en/work/fotografika-edward-hartwig https://polishphotobookreview.com/przekopujac-archiwa-fotografika-edwarda-hartwiga/
author:
title:
Fotografika
year of publication:
1960
photographs:
text:
language:
polski oraz - w osobnych tomach - angielski i niemiecki
design:
Tadeusz Galewski (liternictwo), Edward Hartwig
publisher:
Arkady
place of publication:
Warszawa
pages:
204
format:
425 x 290
binding:
cloth hardcover with dustjacket
printing technique:
rotogravure
print run:
13400
ISBN: