open today: 9am-5pm
open today : 9am-5pm
location
MINE
DATE
28 June - 29 September 2013
In the underground exhibition you can see the exhibition World of Glass Films. Wieliczka in the photograph of Władysław Gargul. The exhibition will present dozens of large-format photographs depicting the then salt mine with its extensive ground infrastructure, miners, and above all the old tourist route, old excavations and ongoing mining works. They constitute a small percentage of the rich collection of over 700 objects of photographs, postcards, glass negatives (278 in number) - souvenirs of the activities of the Wieliczka-Bochnia photographer Władysław Gargul, which are in the collections of the Wieliczka Museum.
Władysław Gargul (1883-1946) born in Bochnia at the age of 20 opened his first independent photographic studio. He became famous as a photographer and inventor, introducing to the photographic market an electric latch for a camera, a phonometer for adjusting the exposure time and a device for quickly copying silver bromide cards. In the following years, he opened his plants in Zakopane, Brzesko and Vienna, after which, probably attracted by the attractiveness of the Wieliczka mine, he initially opened a seasonal, and from 1918 permanent photography studio in Wieliczka. From that moment, he permanently entered the group of people creating Wieliczka's photographic documentation with its most valuable monument - the salt mine.
The oldest "Wielickie" photographs of W. Gargul come from around 1912. However, the most intense period of his photographic activity in Wieliczka falls in the interwar period. He left behind a large group of glass negatives and photographs documenting the past of Wieliczka, including the activities of socio-cultural organizations such as the "Lutnia" Singing Society, the Dramatic Circle or the Cyclists and Motorists Club, as well as a rich collection of commemorative photographs taken against the background of the Daniłowicz shaft to tourists visiting the mine salt. The exhibition 'The World of Glass Films. Wieliczka in Władysław Gargul's photography ”is like an old photo album. It allows for moments of reflection and reflection on the changeability of things.
The oldest "Wielickie" photographs of W. Gargul come from around 1912. However, the most intense period of his photographic activity in Wieliczka falls in the interwar period. He left behind a large group of glass negatives and photographs documenting the past of Wieliczka, including the activities of socio-cultural organizations such as the "Lutnia" Singing Society, the Dramatic Circle or the Cyclists and Motorists Club, as well as a rich collection of commemorative photographs taken against the background of the Daniłowicz shaft to tourists visiting the mine salt. The exhibition 'The World of Glass Films. Wieliczka in Władysław Gargul's photography ”is like an old photo album. It allows for moments of reflection and reflection on the changeability of things.
