[MOUNTAINS - Tatra Mountains - Strążyska Valley - chimneys - view photograph]. [l. 80s/90s of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 15,...

[MOUNTAINS - TatraMountains - Strążyska Valley - chimneys - view photograph]. [l. 80s / 90s XIX century]. Photograph form. 15.2x11.4 cm on original base form. 18x12.9 cm, by Stanislaw Bizanski.
Depicts a view of a valley. On the lower margin of the backing print: "St Bizański Kraków and Zakopane". Photo pasted on original cardboard backing with black border. On the reverse, handwritten inscription in ink: "Tatra Mountains - Strążyska Valley. Chimneys / Zakopane 12/8 1899". Good condition.
S. Bizanski (1846-1890) - Cracow professional photographer. From 1880 to 1890 owner of the photographic establishment Pod Nową Bramą at 430 (now 10 Sienna St.), and then under his name at 3 Szczepanski Square in Krakow (in 1891-1893) and branches in Krynica and Zakopane from 1892. In 1893-1896 the establishment was run by his widow Maria, and in 1896-1900 by his older son Władysław. Author of portraits of Walery Eliasz Radzikowski, Wladyslaw Mickiewicz, Henryk Sienkiewicz, as well as depictions of Zakopane guides and Tatra types. He photographed the Tatra Mountains probably even before 1880. He is the author of two albums-takes of Tatra photography: "Views of the Tatra Mountains in the Photographs of Stanislaw Bizanski Photographer in Cracow" and "Views from the Tatra Mountains" published after his death in 1901.