Prace Jana Bułhaka w zbiorach Muzeum Historii Fotografii w Krakowie
Jan Bułhak’s works in the Collections of the History of Photography Museum in Cracow

Summary/Abstract: The Museum can boast of a large collection of photographs taken by Jan Bułhak and his son Janusz. These arc negatives (including glass ones), contact photographs and enlargements. The subjects of the photographs correspond with the program of „native photography”, conceived by Jan Bułhak in the second half of the 1930s. The glass negatives ( 6 x 9 cm) present landscapes of the Nowogródek (Nawahrudak) and Vilnius regions together with Vilnius itself between the two Word Wars. These photographs were arranged by the author in two cycles: „Lithuania” and „Poland in Photographs”. The glass negatives (9 x 12 cm and 10 x 15) depict Vilnius just after the city had been taken over by the Russian army in July 1944. The glass negatives (6 x 5 cm) and the enlargements (44,5 x 59 cm), made by Jan Bułhak together with his son Janusz in 1946-9, present the ruins of Warsaw in the wake of Word War II and the first stages of reconstruction of the city’s Old Town. From the same time come Jan Bułhak’s photographs (13 x 18 cm) taken all over post-war Poland, forming two cycles: „Cities and Towns” and „Landscapes of Poland from 1945-8”. The majority of these photographs were displayed at the exhibition „Jan Bułhak” in May 1995, held at the Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow. In 1996 a catalogue, The Vilnius of Jan Bułhak, was elaborated by J. Kucharska, A. Rybicki, and M. Skrejko on the basis of this exhibition. Digitalized and reedited material

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