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Mieczysław Cholewa posing on a stump with an alpenstock, wearing stylized traditional costume of highlanders from the Podhale region
Mieczysław Cholewa1930
The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
A collection of Mieczysław Cholewa’s negatives from the 1920s-1930s, including 615 glass negatives and 31 celluloids. The negatives (and costumes, also a part of the collection) form a comprehensive whole and present the life of Polish Highlanders and Lachy Sądeckie people. Moreover, the collection’s creator was also the author of the photos.
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- Title: Mieczysław Cholewa posing on a stump with an alpenstock, wearing stylized traditional costume of highlanders from the Podhale region
- Creator: Mieczysław Cholewa
- Creator Death Date: 1978
- Manufacturer: Mieczysław Cholewa (1913- 1978) was a photographer and amateur ethnographer, as well activist and populariser of the Sądecczyzna region. In the inter-war period studied regional qualities of the Polish areas of the Carpathians, making photographic documentations and collecting traditional folk costumes. A lot of his photos were used in ethnographic studies of folk culture, for example by such eminent ethnographers as Tadeusz Seweryn or Roman Reinfuss. He is also the author of a highly regarded monograph on traditional folk costumes titled “Stroje Ludowe Ziemi Sądeckiej,” published in Lublin in 1946. In the 1940s published a few dozen of his photos as postcards.
- Date Created: 1930
- Location Created: Folk costume inspired by traditional Higlanders`s costumes from Tatra Mountains, around Zakopane.
- Physical Dimensions: 9x13cm
- Photographer: Mieczysław Cholewa
- Medium: glass negative
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