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Object Lessons - Zofia Rydet's Sociological Record (Paperback)
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Object Lessons - Zofia Rydet's Sociological Record (Paperback)
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In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911 97) began work on a monumental project
that would come to be known as her "Sociological Record":
photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an
extraordinary archive of around twenty thousand negatives. The
images include faces, interiors, furnishings, and more. The
undertaking consumed Rydet so completely that she was never able to
give it final shape through a book or an art show.Object Lessons, a
new volume of essays inspired by an exhibition at the Museum of
Modern Art in Warsaw, helps to dispel the myths that have formed
around the project in recent years and introduces the photographer
to a new global audience. The essays here contextualize and
interpret "Sociological Record" from different perspectives,
opening up the work to further inquiry as both an object of
interpretation and a subject of theoretical interest. Rydet herself
remained unresolved over the matter of how to define her work,
leaving the viewer to ponder whether her magnum opus is a piece of
art or science. What does remain undisputed is that "Sociological
Record" is a striking testimony of its time. A fascinating
celebration of Rydet's work that is sure to spur on fresh debate
about art as a social practice and a tool of knowledge, Object
Lessons reminds us of photography's incredible power to provide a
visual way of thinking and a provocative method for archiving the
world.
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