WOMEN'S ACTS
50 photographs; 14.2 x 9.2 cm in album, and 5 loose
On the back author's stamps
postcard of the Bureau of the 1st International Artistic Photography Exhibition, Warsaw, 1957 addressed to Stefan Deptuszewski
Stefan DEPTUSZEWSKI
1912 Jordanowice - 1998 Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Polish artist photographer.
The beginnings of Stefan Deptuszewski's photography were in Antoni Herfurth's photographic establishment in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. In 1934 he made and developed negatives and made prints on photographic paper by himself for the first time. In 1945-1948, he headed the photography section of the Art Lovers Association in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. After World War II, he cooperated with the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, the Department of Reconstruction of the Provincial Office in Warsaw and the Ministry of Culture and Art, making photographic documentation of destruction, ruins, exhumations. The aftermath of this cooperation was Stefan Deptuszewski's first individual photographic exhibition, "Warsaw in Ruins," presented in 1945. In 1947, he began working as a lab technician at the photographic studio, functioning at the State Institute for the Study of Folk Art in Warsaw.
He primarily practiced photography documenting culture and folk art, rituals and handicrafts, a large part of his work was photography of monuments and landscapes. A special place in his work was occupied by the photographic documentation of Grodzisk Mazowiecki and its surroundings. He repeatedly participated (as a photographer) in the Chopin Competition.
Stefan Deptuszewski's photographs were repeatedly published in many magazines, encyclopedias, scientific works, guidebooks, publications. Stefan Deptuszewski was the author and co-author of many photographic exhibitions; individual and collective. Thanks to a scholarship funded by the Kosciuszko Foundation - he compiled photographic documentation of his travels to many countries of Europe and the world.
In 1994 he was awarded the Oskar Kolberg Prize - for the dissemination of folk culture. On May 29, 1996, he became "Honorary Citizen of the City of Grodzisk Mazowiecki."
