{"id":8021,"date":"2025-01-27T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/jan-bulhak\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:27:25","slug":"jan-bulhak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/jan-bulhak\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Bu\u0142hak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Jan Bu\u0142hak was born in the village of Ostaszyn\/Asta\u0161yn in 1876 and he died in the town of Gi\u017cycko in north-east Poland in 1950. A pioneer of Polish fine arts photography, he was also a theorist and critic of the form. Bu\u0142hak was a driving force in the clubs and union movement; he co-founded Fotoklub Wile\u0144ski (the Vilnius Photoclub) in 1927, Photoclub Polski (the Polish Photoclub) in 1929 and the Zwi\u0105zek Polskich Artyst\u00f3w Fotografik\u00f3w (Union of Polish Art Photographers) in 1947. He was connected with Vilnius and its environs for most of his life and that was where his most important photographic series were taken. He remained true to the tradition of pictorialism. In the late nineteen thirties, he formulated a programme of Polish photography which he also developed during the changing political realities of the Second World War. He specialised primarily in travel photography, landscapes and historical architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/jan-bulhak\/\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Jan Bu\u0142hak was born in the village of Ostaszyn\/Asta\u0161yn in 1876 and he died in the town of Gi\u017cycko in north-east Poland in 1950. A pioneer of Polish fine arts photography, he was also a theorist and critic of the form. Bu\u0142hak was a driving force in the clubs and union movement; he co-founded Fotoklub&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/jan-bulhak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jan Bu\u0142hak<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-b-en","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8022,"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polishphotobooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}