Title: "Poronin - Lenin Museum"
Author: Seweryn Błochowicz
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About the author: Seweryn Błochowicz (October 23, 1912, Skarżysko-Kamienna – November 2006, Katowice), photographer, member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF) since 1950 (Silesian District of ZPAF), graduated with a degree in the natural sciences in 1939 in Kraków; he had been involved in artistic photography since the years of the occupation; from 1945, he became associated with Upper Silesia and Katowice; he worked for many years in the steel industry; from 1949 to 1955 (not until 1953 as some sources indicate), he was a lecturer in photography at what is now the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Katowice (the institution had various names during this period), from 1958, he began a regular collaboration with "Desa"; he specialized, among other things, in the techniques of isohelia and solarization, and conducted numerous formal experiments; an outstanding landscape photographer; participated in numerous domestic and international exhibitions; honored with the title of Artiste FIAP (AFIAP); see Alfred Ligocki: Forms and People. Almanac of Silesian Photography by ZPAF. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk, 1988, pp. 46–47, Photographers 1946–2006, p. 43, and other materials
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Item in good condition, with slight damage to the lower left corner and left margin of the photograph
