Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Warsaw Street Types

Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 n


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 e


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 a


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 b


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 c


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 d


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 f


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 g


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 h


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 k


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 l


Józef Rapacki - Warsaw Street Types 1926 m


'Z dawnej i niedawnej Warszawy" : album typów ulicznych : 20 autolitografji' (approx: The Recent and Former Warsaw: An Album of Street Types: 20 lithographs) from the Polish Digital Library (1926).

Józef Rapacki (1871-1929) trained as an artist in Warsaw, Cracow and Munich. He travelled to Italy on many occasions and was known as a landscape artist early in his career, but later in life he was more inclined towards illustration and graphic art works.

I'm not sure I could correctly identify all of the trades depicted among this suite of sometimes dubious-looking urban characters. There's certainly no attempt to embellish the portraits: these are not romantic sketches; although the subjects are generally displayed with a proud countenance. The pictures are somewhat reminiscent of the urchins and street people found in Mayhew's study of the London poor from the 1860s.
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