The exhibition devoted to the collection of the glass negatives found at Rynek 4 Street was opened on 24 September in ADA Projects Space Gallery. The exhibition was prepared by Tal Schwartz – a collaborator with the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre.
The exhibition was divided into two parts: the first one included 14 big prints that were chosen out of 2700 negatives. Another one was the multimedia exhibit about the Jewish Lublin which employed digital scans of negatives and contained films based on the information gathered by the Centre. The aim of the exhibition was to provide the general public with a closer look on the life of the Jewish society in the period between the two World Wars. Moreover, it was an attempt to find the new methods of presenting archives.
The exhibition was available for visitors in the period between 24 September to 11 October 2015.
The collection of the glass negatives found at Rynek 4 consisted of more than 2700 negatives of a different size – from 6x9 cm to 13x18 cm. The photographs were taken between the years 1914 and 1939. The collection was found whilst cleaning up and conducting archaeological research which preceded renovation and adaptive works in the tenement house. Krzysztof Janus, construction inspector for the building, secured, cleaned, sorted and scanned the negatives. After that, the owners of the building were the negatives were found entrusted the collection to the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre.
Jakub Chmielnicki, who is a collaborator with the Centre, managed to find out that the glass negatives were taken by Abram Zylberberg.
The collection is available online at http://negatywy.teatrnn.pl/
Tal Schwartz is a photographer and an independent curator. She is a graduate of Hadassah Academic College where she studied Photographic Communication. Nowadays, she lives and works both in Israel and Poland.
