A Study

Known primarily for his photographs of Witkacy`s experimental activities. Currently, his own pictorial work is being rediscovered. A mining engineer by profession, manager of oil mines in Boryslav, Lvov Province. He was an amateur photographer, but his photographic output reveals a far better skill than that needed for simple family album making. In the second half of the 1920s, he moved to Zakopane, where he shot portraits and scenes with the participation of his family and friends. What had a huge impact on his work were his personal contacts with artists (e.g. with the sculptor August Zamoyski and his wife, dancer Rita Sacchetto, as well as Witkacy), under the influence of whom he produced quasi-staged and experimental portraits. From 1931, Głogowski took a number of expressive portraits of Witkacy. He also made a series of snaps presenting Witkacy`s mime-theatre, in which the artist experiments with his own image, and documented scenes improvised by the artist, involving Głogowski`s own family members. In his work, a pictorialist approach to photography interacts with the new modernist approach based on the specific features of the medium. Major exhibitions: The Daughters` Time, Asymetria Gallery, Warsaw (2009); Witkacy and others. From the collection of Stefan Okołowicz and Ewa Franczak, Wilanów Pallace Museum, Warsaw (2011).