Warsaw 1944 Graves in Srodmiescie district photograph by Eugeniusz Haneman [Life time print / Warsaw war damage / Warsaw Uprising].

Eugeniusz Haneman was born in 1917 in Warsaw. From an early age he has been fascinated by photography, and began taking photographs seriously in 1931, when he received from his mother a camera for reel film, a box-Tengor 6x9. He made his public debut at an exhibition of sports photography organized by the LOPP in 1934. He graduated from the Rej Gymnasium and the High School of Photography in Warsaw, where lecturers included Jan Neuman and Marian Dederko, prominent Polish photographers in the interwar period. In 1940, E. Haneman received a diploma in photography and began working professionally, first at the "Portrait by Coffee" establishment, and then at the exclusive "Van Dyck" atelier on Jerozolimskie Avenue in Warsaw. The outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising closed this stage of E. Haneman. He swapped the atelier camera for a small-picture "Baldina" and, as a photojournalist for the Government Delegation for Poland, documented (in tandem with Sylwester Braun) the insurgent events, mainly in the Śródmieście and Powiśle districts. Of the several hundred photographs taken, about 150 survived, which today constitute a valuable document of the life of insurgent Warsaw. After World War II, E. Haneman changed his profession for several years. At the urging of Antoni Bohdziewicz, he became a cinematographer. He worked first in Cracow, where he was the cinematographer of the Polish Newsreel and taught photography at the Film Institute, and then, starting in 1946, in Lodz, as a cinematographer at the Puppet Film Studio, and later at the Educational Film Studio. Since 1953, he devoted himself to teaching at the Film School in Lodz, where he still works today as a lecturer in the subject of "photography." However, the most important chapter of his biography is his own photographic work. She has brought him artistic success, she has satisfied him for more than seventy years. [...] He has held various statutory positions many times since 1951, most notably the position of Vice President for Artistic Affairs from 1973 to 1989. In recognition of his services to the Society, in 1989. General Assembly awarded him the title of Honorary Member of the LTF. E. Haneman has also been a member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers since 1947, whose Lodz Delegation (now the ZPAF District) he co-organized in 1953.He is the author of countless photos about Lodz used in the press, on postcards and in albums. Lodz galleries, including on several occasions the LTF Gallery of Photography, often presented author's exhibitions of E. Haneman. Probably all areas of his life activity converge and intertwine in photography - passion, creativity, teaching activity, social work. It is a truism to say that the LTF community has important reasons and a duty to popularize E. Haneman and his work and make it present in the consciousness of viewers again and again.
The biographical introduction by Gregory Bojanowski - an artist-photographer - is taken from the catalog "Eugeniusz Haneman AFIAP, ZPAF, LTF. Exhibition of photographs on the 50th Anniversary of the first author's presentation". - 2003. The text has been reprinted for the purposes of the auction with the personal permission of Mr. Grzegorz Bojanowski