I first met Marek Majewski whilst he utilized for a educating place in our newly shaped electronic images application at IADT Tampa, Florida the place i used to be this system Chair. We grew to become speedy pals. Marek's wonderful arts measure from the Academy of excellent Arts used to be extraordinary adequate, and after seeing a few of his published items, i'll see that his transition from high-quality paintings to images used to be very traditional. He labored for “Rolling Stone” and later develop into leader photographer for “Artbeat” journal. He additionally confirmed me those awesome photographs from the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco jumbled together with recognized faces from the seventies. i used to be completely blown away! His robust body compositions and targeted black & white variety harkened again to Rembrandt’s lights and the photographs created by way of Irving Penn. We talked a bit. He advised me very in short approximately his existence as an artwork director and award profitable photographer. keep in mind that Marek turned a welcomed member of our college and for seven years molded the visions of enormous quantities of our scholars in Photojournalism and Composition periods. Marek has had numerous picture exhibitions within the usa, Canada & Europe; however it is his distinctive road images, creative eye for composition and talent to trap the decisive second that makes photos during this e-book daring. He chronicles a “riot” of the rising counter-culture of the overdue sixties & seventies. whereas being pictures of the previous, all of those moments are the root for lots of of the stylistic queues that force our present visible tradition; particularly obvious in the course of the eyes of an artist born open air the us. This selection of candid pictures are a real time laptop, with each body lush with the sharpened view of a time and position that got here jointly in a flash; all saved alive and captured eternally on movie by means of Marek Majewski. Paul Pelak -- photograph division Chair IADT -- Tampa , Florida