BULHAK Jan - [Czombrów Manor]. [1914/l. 1930s]. Photograph form. 15,9x11,...

BULHAK Jan - [Czombrów Manor]. [1914/l. 1930s]. Photograph form. 15.9x11.8 cm on original cardboard backing form. 32x24 cm.
Depicts the wooden mansion of the Karpowicz family in Novogrudok province, destroyed in 1942. One-story building with whitewashed walls, with a columned portico and triangular abutment. Framed by Italian poplars closing the composition. In the foreground, the road leading to the driveway and bushes obscuring the lower parts of the building. In the background, the manor park. In the lower right corners of the photo and underlay impressions: "Jan Bulhak Vilnius". Photo pasted on original publisher's cardboard. On the back stamp: "Poland in pictures photographed by J. Bulhak Kresy. voivodship of Novogrodek. J. Bulhak Art. Fot. Vilnius, Jagiellońska 8. All rights reserved. 6000 fot. images from all over Poland" and a handwritten entry in ink stamp: "Czombrów". 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.