Works - Muzeum Historii Fotografii

Bolesaw Gardulski - Fotografie
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http://www.mhf.krakow.pl/wystawy/gardulski/english.htm
1885 - 1961
Works
Suszenie bielizny, Hel
Podegrodzie Spiskie, zamek
Bolesław Gardulski was born on the 27th September 1885 in East-Southern Poland. He
was a lawyer and a member of the Union of Judges and Prosecutors and Trade Union of
State Employees and The Union of Lawyers-Democrats. His real passion was photography,
criticism, journalism. Together with T.Cyprian and T. Wański he created an informal group
of photographers called the Poznan "Three-leaf".
Already in 1902 Bolesław Gardulski makes first steps in photography, using the 9/12 cm
camera. In 1906 he becomes a member of the Cracow Society of Amateur Photographers
and in the academic years he creates a young photographer's club in Auschwitz. In 1924
Bolesław Gardulski is nominated to be a member-founder of the Polish Association of
Photography Enthusiasts in Poznan and he organizes a variety of courses concerning
photography. He was also the initiator of the first Polish Photography Review.
In 1925 Gardulski takes part in the IX Polish Exhibition of Artistic Photography in Enthusiasts of Fine Arts
Association. Between the years of 1925 and 1930 he publishes articles in Polish Photography Review and edits,
together with T. Cyprian, a book for the beginners in photography. In 1927 he appears for the first time on
international exhibition in Sydney. In 1930 he becomes a member of the Polish Photo-club. In 1932 he comes to
Cracow, where to the year of 1949 he works as a judge in the Court of Appeal and is the Vice-president of the
Court. He is active in Cracow's Branch Polish Hiking Association and he starts his partnership with the Y.M.C.A
Photography Club, with which he organizes the Third International Photography Exhibition. It was the first
"Invitation Salon" in Poland. In 1939 he is honored to get the Gold Medal of Recognition for the activity in the
field of photography. In 1945 he cooperates with the Cracow Photography and Film Section of the Polish
Association of Tatra-Mountains Enthusiasts. In 1947 he is a member of the Polish Union of Art Photographers,
and in 1948 he is already Cracows Vice-President of it. In 1960, on the 50th Anniversary he is honored to become
the Golden Award of the Polish Union of Art Photographers.
On the 30th of January 1961 Bolesław Gardulski died in Cracow.
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Bolesaw Gardulski - Fotografie
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http://www.mhf.krakow.pl/wystawy/gardulski/english.htm
Bolesław Gardulski is one of the most outstanding Polish photographers of 20-ties. The major subject of his
works was the urban architecture. An exceptional part of them is inspired by Jan Bulhak. The features of his
works are mostly every-day people from the city. The architecture, shown often as a labyrinth, was like a setting
to an "every-day life of the streets" performance was played. The puzzle of the setting - as Maciej Szymonowicz
writes - was emphasized by a characteristic way of showing light. Gardulski, like Bulhak, used the low light of the
morning or the afternoon, which gives the effect of glowing when it falls on wet walls of the buildings. In
claustrophobic vision of the city, Gardulski uses the light to show the structure of the city-space. This creates a
different, unreal picture of the city, divided by light and hidden by it"
The Organizers of the Exhibition: Galeria pf from Poznan and History Muzeum of Photography in Cracow.
Pamiątkowa fotografia ze spotkania Fotoklubu Polskiego, ok. 1930 r.
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