Lecture: “Portrait of the city – street photography of the 1940s and 1950s”

27 February, 12:00

The lecture referred to the exhibition “Andreas Feininger. New York in the Forties” and addressed selected authors of street photography of the 1940s and 1950s.

Andreas Feininger was a leading representative of 20th-century American photography. For him, the city was a source of inexhaustible creative impulses and interesting motifs. Fascinated by the dynamics of the big city, he wandered the streets of New York, photographing its inhabitants, architecture, and everyday life.

However, Feininger was not the first photographer to be captivated by the urban landscape and the life within it. Already at the beginning of the 20th century, enthusiasts of photographic technology recorded the ephemeral, unpredictable, and colourful life of the city on a photosensitive surface, laying the foundations for the development of a separate genre: street photography.

The lecture took place online via Zoom. Admission was free. To receive a link, we asked the participants to send an application to the following e-mail address: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl.

Lecture from the series: “Decades with Art”.

Lecturer:

Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk – art historian, curator. She studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. A graduate of the interdisciplinary programme Environment-Technology-Society (Jagiellonian University). Author of academic articles on art and architecture of the 20th century and essays in exhibition catalogues and magazines. Co-editor of the anthology “obraz/ciało” and co-editor of “Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. Co-author and curator of the Exercising Modernity programme (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral dissertation prepared at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, she investigates the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.