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Praga w starej fotografii
Lovers of old Warsaw and particularly its Praga borough will be delighted with this album. A collection of so far unpublished photographs of Praga in the 1970s, it features the residents of the borough ad other varsovians in social situations, and especially in the unique, now legendary milieu of the Różycki and Szmulek Bazaars, which constituted the semi-legal business underbelly of communist Poland.
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- Author
- Woropiński Jerzy
- Introduction
- Wichrowska Elżbieta
- Graphic design
- Barecki Andrzej
- Format
- 205 x 275 mm
- Pages
- 112
- Number of images
- 117
- ISBN
- 978-83-7576-245-7
- EAN
- 9788375762457
- Binding
- twarda
- Issue number
- I
- Year of publication
- 2015
Lovers of old Warsaw and particularly its Praga borough will be delighted with this album. A collection of so far unpublished photographs of Praga in the 1970s, it features the residents of the borough ad other varsovians in social situations, and especially in the unique, now legendary milieu of the Różycki and Szmulek Bazaars, which constituted the semi-legal business underbelly of communist Poland.
Praga has always been able to retain its own toughcharacter of a working –class borough, full of small businesses, and petty, or sometimes not so petty, crime. Taking a walk – via the photographs - in the Praga streets you will pass houses destroyed in the war, horse-drawn carriages, firewood storage houses, soap shops smelling of paraffin, slightly dormant lanes … When World War II was over, the world started a rush towards normality again; Warsaw was rising from ruins, new housing projects were being built all around, but Praga stayed behind in the past, as if in a lethargic dream. The drab greyness of the streets became sometimes broken by communist slogans of the hour, painted in white: „3 x YES”, „Out with the killers of Lumumba” , „ Lenin will live forever!”. These ideological slogans did little to change the true attitudes of Praga residents towards the communist government. Their main goal in life had always been to survive, to get by, in spite of all wars and politics, so they just went on with their lives as before, street-smart, mistrustful, dealing with problems at hand, often expressed in whimpering children’s voices: I’m hungry, I’m cold, I want to go to school, I want to play …
The photographs are the work of a Praga native Jerzy Woropiński who invites us on a tour of his borough via his nostalgic pictures and stories they tell of the Praga people, from infancy to old age.
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Lovers of old Warsaw and particularly its Praga borough will be delighted with this album. A collection of so far unpublished photographs of Praga in the 1970s, it features the residents of the borough ad other varsovians in social situations, and especially in the unique, now legendary milieu of the Różycki and Szmulek Bazaars, which constituted the semi-legal business underbelly of communist Poland.