Size: 33.4 x 50.4 cm
dated and described on the reverse: stamp of DESA Unicum, stamp and hologram of the National Museum in Warsaw
ed. 1/3
Print from the author's 24 x 36 mm negative, from the photo essay "In a Six-Year-Old City," "World" 1955, no. 42 (October 23).
Origins
Auction of photographs from the weekly magazine "World," National Museum in Warsaw, DESA Unicum, 2013
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
"Four times WORLD. Konstanty Jarochowski, Jan Kosidowski, Wiesław Prażuch, Władysław Sławny". - photojournalists of the illustrated weekly "WYWIAT" (1951-1969), National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, 22.02-19.05.2013
Biography
Wladyslaw Slawny emigrated in 1931 from Lodz to Paris, where he devoted himself to photography. During World War II, he joined the Polish army in France and fought in the Battle of Narvik as a soldier of the Independent Highland Rifle Brigade. From 1945 he headed the photography section of "Gazeta Polska" published in Paris. In 1950 he came to Poland to form a team of photojournalists for the new illustrated weekly "World." He ran the magazine's photo department until 1957, when he decided to return to Paris. In France, he remained involved in photographic journalism, which he practiced in Polish newspapers and as a freelance photographer. In 1950, he became a member of the Polish Association of Photographers (later ZPAF), and was expelled from it on March 17, 1968.
