Everyday Life in Poland in 1930

[JustJohn or JJ]

Everyday Life in Poland in 1930

by Hans Hildenbrand

Hans Hildenbrand (1870–1957) was one of the early color photographers from Germany. In 1911 he founded the color photographic society, which mainly spread postcards and stereoscopic images and become known for taking color photographs during World War I. That time he was one of 19 officially commissioned war photographers on the German side, and the only one among them to make color photographs of the war zones in Alsace, Champagne and the Vosges.
After war in 1932 become photographer for the American magazine National Geographic, for which he visited Poland at the turn of the 20/30’s where he captured the colorful life of its people. On the photos you can see the daily life of farmers, highlanders and villagers in traditional costumes, St. Mary’s Church and the merchants in the Market Square in Cracow. It’s really piece of history captured on this photos. Text thanks to slavorum.org
Photo by © Hans Hildenbrand/National Geographic Society/Corbis


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[pieter]

Wonderful images John about a time in Poland which was still untouched by the devastation of the Second World War and the hardships of Nazism, Stalinism (1945-1956) and Polish Comnunism (1945-1989). The photo's of Hans Hildenbrand (1870–1957) show the colorful life of Polish people. Their folk culture, the atmosphere of that time, people in moments of rest or togetherness of social groups in a time of hardship and poverty (the thirties were a time of poverty and huge gaps between rich and poor), the daily life of that Polish farmers, the Gorals highlanders and villagers in traditional costumes. The coulors show the colours of that time, but might be changed by the working of time (chemical reactions and processes in photo paper)?

[karl]

J.J.

Thank you most kindly for sharing of these Polish photos. The photos are indeed very colourful in excellent detail as if for them to be dressed in their very finest for the photos. A very historic set of photos suitable for museum display I would only guess..

Karl