One of the most outstanding figures in Polish photography. Bułhak completed philosophy studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in 1899. His first photographs date back to 1905. Between 1919 and 1939, he was the head of the Institute of Artistic Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. Author of photographic documentation of the architecture of Vilnius, Warsaw, Cracow, Grodno, Zamość, Lublin, Kazimierz and other locations. His studio prepared over 150 albums devoted to the cities and regions of the Second Republic of Poland. Bułhak was also a photography theorist, an author of a photography programme understood as an independent artistic discipline, using the premises of pictorialism and the so-called homeland photography, which was intended to emphasise nationality and Polish character. Founder and first president of the Vilnius Photo-Club, co-founder of the Polish Photo-Club and ZPAF (1947). After WWII, Bułhak photographed the ruins of Warsaw and the so-called "Regained Territories." He participated in the Modern Polish Photography exhibition (1948), where he presented photographic abstractions. His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw and Wrocław, the Museum of the History of Photography in Cracow, the Museum of Art in Łódź and the National Library in Warsaw.
1920s
gelatin silver print, 29.3 x 21 cm, mounted on 30.5 x 23.7 cm cardboard,
signature and author`s dry stamp on the front, signature,
description and author`s stamp on the reverse of the cardboard,
edition: unspecified
vintage print
Bułhak had a fondness for taking photos in sunlight, which offered, so important to him, "shadows and values."
One of the most outstanding figures in Polish photography. Bułhak completed philosophy studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in 1899. His first photographs date back to 1905. Between 1919 and 1939, he was the head of the Institute of Artistic Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. Author of photographic documentation of the architecture of Vilnius, Warsaw, Cracow, Grodno, Zamość, Lublin, Kazimierz and other locations. His studio prepared over 150 albums devoted to the cities and regions of the Second Republic of Poland. Bułhak was also a photography theorist, an author of a photography programme understood as an independent artistic discipline, using the premises of pictorialism and the so-called homeland photography, which was intended to emphasise nationality and Polish character. Founder and first president of the Vilnius Photo-Club, co-founder of the Polish Photo-Club and ZPAF (1947). After WWII, Bułhak photographed the ruins of Warsaw and the so-called "Regained Territories." He participated in the Modern Polish Photography exhibition (1948), where he presented photographic abstractions. His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw and Wrocław, the Museum of the History of Photography in Cracow, the Museum of Art in Łódź and the National Library in Warsaw.