Compilation:
Sławomir Rybałtowski, Tomasz Markiewicz
Price:
PLN 59,00
Softback. 152 pages. Published in 2014
Over 120 excellent photographs taken by an American photojournalist, John Vachon, who visited Poland in 1946, 1956, and 1963. The photographs come from the archives of the Library of the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, and Ann Vachon’s private collection.
Commissioned by the U.S. government, John Vachon first came to Poland shortly after the war. He documented the support provided to Poland by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He photographed the country, destroyed by the war, and fate-stricken people. Besides Warsaw, he visited Gdańsk, Katowice, Wrocław, Kraków, as well as numerous little towns and villages, where he saw destruction, ruins, and poverty inflicted by the occupant and warfare. He captured the atmosphere of the country where a new communist regime was being born.
