[LUBLIN - view of the Archcathedral of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist and the city from the Trinity Tower - photograp...

[LUBLIN - view of the Archcathedral of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist and the city from the Trinity Tower - view photograph]. [1937]. Photograph form. 10.9x16.4 cm, by Jan Bulhak.
Depicts a fragment of the city's panorama as seen from the highest historic high point of Lublin. In the lower right corner an imprint: "J. Bulhak Vilnius". The photograph belongs to the author's series "Poland in J. Bulhak's photogr. images". On the back stamp: "La Pologne en images photogr. de J. Bułkak J. Bułhak. Art. Phot. Wilno, Orzeszkowej Copyright by J. Bulhak 1937 / No. "5270. Lublin View of St. John's Cathedral and the city from the Trinity Tower [inscribed in pencil]"; "Collection of Dr. Mieczyslaw Orlowicz". Very good condition.
J. Bulhak (1876-1950) - outstanding Polish photographer, doyen of Polish photography, philosopher and theoretician, founder of Fotoklub Wileński in 1927, and co-founder of ZPAF after WWII. He established his first studio at the instigation of Ferdynand Ruszczyc. For some time he stayed in the Dresden studio of Hugo Erfurt. His first works in Vilnius were created between 1912 and 1919 and were mainly devoted to landscape and monumental architecture. It was these themes that became the leading ones in his work, and it was these that he mainly dealt with until the end of his life. He was the founder of landscape photography. His collection of about 10,000 photos "Poland in photographic landscapes" and his photo library of Polish and foreign photos burned down in Vilnius in 1944. After the war, until 1946, he took about 1,000 photos of the destruction and reconstruction of Warsaw and about 2,000 photos of the Western Territories. He published many albums, volumes and postcards with photographs, mainly of the borderlands, and especially of Vilnius. He was also the author of many textbooks on the aesthetics and technique of photography, sightseeing, and initiated hist. research on photography.