1950/before 1959
gelatin silver print, 39.8 × 30 cm,
signed "Dorys" on the front, titled and artist’s stamp dated 1959 on the reverse
vintage

This portrait of Jan Bułhak is one of his best known images. Bułhak is considered to be one of the leading figures in the history of Polish photography, and is even referred to as the Father of Polish Photography. In addition to being a great artist, he was also a theoretician, and an active animator of the photographic community. Dorys was under the influence of pictorial style, as propagated by Bułhak. Both photographers were among the eighteen founders of the Polish Association of Art Photographers (1947), later ZPAF (since 1952).
Another print of this photograph is in the collection of the National Library in Warsaw.