Dimensions: 16.5 x 38 cm
signed, dated and inscribed at the bottom: 'Milan 87 PHOTOSYNTHESE KPruszkowski'.
Biography
In 1960-65 he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. Two years later he moved to France. Since the 1990s he has lived and worked in Paris and Kazimierz Dolny. In 1977, his first well-known series with a reportage-sociological expression, although accentuated photogenic qualities - Barrier - was created. Since 1984, the artist has been pursuing his own artistic idea called photosynthesis, which consists in repeatedly overlapping and exposing photographs close to each other thematically and formally, the aim of which is a synthetic image. This method, has its origins in both the photographic portraits of the early 20th century. Alvin Langdon Coburn and the somewhat later Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, as well as the concept of searching for synthesis that existed in Renaissance (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci) and Symbolist (Paul Gauguin) painting.
