Jadwiga Janczewska, Zakopane, ca. 1913, Gelatin silver print, Image: 12.5 x 17.4 cm (4 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.), Photographs, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish, Warsaw 1885–1939 Jeziory), Witkiewicz was prolific in many mediums, writing plays, novels, and philosophical treatises as well as painting and making darkly brooding photographic portraits and self-portraits. In all his work, he describes a proto-existential sense of the self struggling in vain against the undifferentiated mass of men and the indifference of death; he often turned to drugs to recover this missing plenitude of existence
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Jadwiga Janczewska, Zakopane, ca, 1913, Gelatin silver print, Image, 12.5 x 17.4 cm, 4 15/16 6 7/8, Photographs, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish, Warsaw, 1885–1939, Jeziory, Witkiewicz, prolific, mediums, writing plays, novels, philosophical treatises, well, painting, darkly brooding photographic, portraits, self-portraits, work, describes, proto-existential sense, self struggling, vain, undifferentiated mass, men, indifference, death, turned, drugs, recover, missing plenitude, existence
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