[WARSAW - Krakowskie Przedmieście and a fragment of the city skyline - view photographs]. [1860s and 1870s]....

[WARSAW - Krakowskie Przedmieście and a fragment of the city panorama - view photographs]. [1860s and 1870s]. Set of 2 photographs form. 10.1x14.7 cm on original common backing form. ca. 30x21.5 cm, by Konrad Brandl in Warsaw.
Sequentially from top:
1. view of the square on Krakowskie Przedmieście street towards the Castle Square. In the left fragment of the composition a tenement house at the corner of Krakowskie Przedmieście and Kozia Street, which housed a café with a garden. Shot taken after July 1867, belonging to the album "Widoki Warszawy" (similar reprod. in: K. Lejko "Warsaw in the lens of Konrad Brandl", illustration 9, p. 93).
2. photograph taken on August 26, 1873. view toward Praga from the Clock Tower of the Royal Castle in Warsaw to the New Exit. Visible rafts on the Vistula passing under the Kierbedzia Bridge (similar reprod. in: K. Lejko "Warsaw in the lens of Konrad Brandl", illustration 2, p. 86).
Photos pasted on original common cardboard backing. Identifying inscriptions in ink in the left margin. Damaged lower corners and right margin of backing, on face of second photo not very visible stamp.?, otherwise good condition.
K. Brandel (1838-1920) - one of the pioneers of Polish photography, artist photographer, constructor, inventor, chronicler of Warsaw. Co-worker of K. Beyer. In 1865 he opened his own establishment on Nowy Swiat in Warsaw, from which came, among other things, many views of the city, portraits of famous and less famous, and reproductions of works of art. In 1884 he constructed a snapshot camera, the so-called photorevolver - one of the first cameras to take reportage photographs. The use of the invention enabled the artist to photograph the daily life of the capital and its architectural features. Many of these photographs were published in the press of the time (Brandel worked with the "Illustrated Weekly").