BOŃCZA - SNAWADZKI A. W. Jarema. COLLARING. Mermaid race [1939].

Format:13x14cm. Unique !

Photo by photojournalist "Mass start of the Syrena cycling race. In the middle the Polish champion Napierała" Photo for the illustrated sports weekly "One, two, three" number 5/434 page five - dated January 29, 1939. A unique photographic document by one of the more mysterious, and at the same time extremely respected when it comes to photographic material - photographer Antoni Wiktor Jarema BOÑCZA - SNAWADZKI alias 'ANWIJABOWADZKI' In 1939 he took part in the defense of Warsaw, and after the capitulation with his private camera documented traces of fighting, destruction, exhumation of victims. This photograph, contrary to the information given in his biography, can prove that he was not just an amateur, but before the war began he was also professionally engaged as a photojournalist practicing photography.