1. Zofia Nasierowska was a Polish portrait photographer who created images of Polish celebrities.
11 Facts About Zofia Nasierowska
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Zofia Nasierowska took to photography as a child at the age of seven and within four years she was exhibiting her work.
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Zofia Nasierowska attracted attention when she took a photo of the actress Lucyna Winnicka which made the cover of the magazine Ekran in 1958.
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Zofia Nasierowska was known for her lighting which produced monochrome images that made her subjects look like film stars.
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Zofia Nasierowska at the time was just twenty but she believed that although some women believed that they could improve their look while looking in the mirror Zofia Nasierowska said this was a fallacy.
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Zofia Nasierowska took photos of Nina Andrycz allowing her to use her mirror, but the ones chosen for publication were created without the mirror.
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Zofia Nasierowska was honored with the title of "Artiste FIAP" given by the International Federation of Photographic Art.
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In 2009 Zofia Nasierowska Turowska published an illustrated biography of her life.
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Zofia Nasierowska died on 3 October 2011, in Warsaw after a long illness.
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Zofia Nasierowska was buried in the Military Cemetery in Powazki.
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Zofia Nasierowska was included in Karolina Lewandowska's book, She-documentalists: Polish Women Photographers of the 20th Century.