with a flat landscapes emerge the outlines of three small outbuildings. In fact, we have no doubt that it is a former farm. This is to certify not only the emptiness around the buildings and the architecture itself (who tried to shed, or rural cottage architecturally interesting impose a vision?), But also the most important part of the picture - a wooden peg in the foreground, retaining shabby fence of barbed wire, probably to protect it what remains after the former glory of this place.
The above photo shows the deserted farm ( Abandoned Farm, near Dolhart, Texas, 1938 ) with a time of great crisis that struck in the 30s United States. Dorothea Lange made it in one of the largest projects in the history of photography Farm Security Administration (FSA) carried out for government agencies under the supervision of Roy E. Stryker, and designed to show the effects of the Great Depression and the introduction of a state policy interwencjonalizmu Franklin D. Roosevelt or "New Deal" (New Deal). The huge scale of the FSA can provide a number of left by the involved photographers, numbering about 250,000 negatives ...
With such achievements is extremely difficult to put together the activities of contemporary photography, in addition to locking in small and science within a single county of only 704 km2. Even so, a small area can become rich training ground for an artist who is well aware of the possibility and nature of the medium of photography.
For Waldemar Śliwczyńskiego Commons has at least a few words - treat it as a document disappearing at an accelerating pace of provincial architecture, but also as a carrier information about the past tense, hence the passion for the pre-war postcards (dot releases his effort appeared to 2007 as many as three albums containing pre-war postcards from September and the former county Wrzesnia). But as befits the racial regionalistę Śliwczyński carefully distinguished steps to put a case is not on too far and did not hook the neighboring district Wrzesnia. This rare attitude unique attachment to the locality carries a lot of limitations-not only geographically, because of this attitude must be associated misunderstanding - as in fact translating conscious of the importance of documenting the profound changes is the "here" and "now"? Despite the obvious similarities, the process of documenting the holdings of the Fallen - the main theme Śliwczyńskiego photography - can not be directly compared with the FSA project, or activity of an amazing marriage Becher, who have devoted their lives to build a kind of typology of industrial buildings. The scale and time are completely different. Also, the very idea. However, one important element remains constant - determination. Feature that the documentary photography is one of the fundamental to its existence. Without it, many buildings of former state farms have disappeared forever today, others that lasted longer and were still subjected to the slow destruction. The resulting photographs are replete with not only a critical look, but also a kind of melancholy. And not due to a longing for the past economic system, but rather stems directly from ancient history, recorded on old postcards. Without a doubt, a large collection of pre-war postcards from around Wrzesnia what Śliwczyński able to create seems to be the most important key to his photography. They seem to set the stages of photographic documentation of traces of the past, without making unnecessary assessments - not the social and economic hierarchy are important here, but discovering and restoring history in general. Even the smallest, most human, created by each and every human being. If you do not live only for the copper ...
The above photo shows the deserted farm ( Abandoned Farm, near Dolhart, Texas, 1938 ) with a time of great crisis that struck in the 30s United States. Dorothea Lange made it in one of the largest projects in the history of photography Farm Security Administration (FSA) carried out for government agencies under the supervision of Roy E. Stryker, and designed to show the effects of the Great Depression and the introduction of a state policy interwencjonalizmu Franklin D. Roosevelt or "New Deal" (New Deal). The huge scale of the FSA can provide a number of left by the involved photographers, numbering about 250,000 negatives ...
With such achievements is extremely difficult to put together the activities of contemporary photography, in addition to locking in small and science within a single county of only 704 km2. Even so, a small area can become rich training ground for an artist who is well aware of the possibility and nature of the medium of photography.
For Waldemar Śliwczyńskiego Commons has at least a few words - treat it as a document disappearing at an accelerating pace of provincial architecture, but also as a carrier information about the past tense, hence the passion for the pre-war postcards (dot releases his effort appeared to 2007 as many as three albums containing pre-war postcards from September and the former county Wrzesnia). But as befits the racial regionalistę Śliwczyński carefully distinguished steps to put a case is not on too far and did not hook the neighboring district Wrzesnia. This rare attitude unique attachment to the locality carries a lot of limitations-not only geographically, because of this attitude must be associated misunderstanding - as in fact translating conscious of the importance of documenting the profound changes is the "here" and "now"? Despite the obvious similarities, the process of documenting the holdings of the Fallen - the main theme Śliwczyńskiego photography - can not be directly compared with the FSA project, or activity of an amazing marriage Becher, who have devoted their lives to build a kind of typology of industrial buildings. The scale and time are completely different. Also, the very idea. However, one important element remains constant - determination. Feature that the documentary photography is one of the fundamental to its existence. Without it, many buildings of former state farms have disappeared forever today, others that lasted longer and were still subjected to the slow destruction. The resulting photographs are replete with not only a critical look, but also a kind of melancholy. And not due to a longing for the past economic system, but rather stems directly from ancient history, recorded on old postcards. Without a doubt, a large collection of pre-war postcards from around Wrzesnia what Śliwczyński able to create seems to be the most important key to his photography. They seem to set the stages of photographic documentation of traces of the past, without making unnecessary assessments - not the social and economic hierarchy are important here, but discovering and restoring history in general. Even the smallest, most human, created by each and every human being. If you do not live only for the copper ...
This text written for the exhibition, which will soon be opened in the regional museum in Wrzesnia - details below.
Waldemar Śliwczyński, Chocicza Small , 2003
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