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Jan Brunon Buhak was a pioneer of photography in Poland and presentday Belarus and Lithuania, and one of the bestknown Polish photographers of the early 20th century. A theoretician and philosopher of photography, he was among the most prominent exponents of pictorialism. He is best known for his landscapes and photographs of various places, especially the city of Vilnius . He was the founder of the Wilno Photoclub and Polish Photoclub, the predecessors of the modern Union of Polish Art Photographers , of which he was an honorary headperson. He is also known as an ethnographer and folklorist.

Jan Buhak was born on October 6, 1876 in Ostaszyn , near Navahrudak , Russian Empire . His parents were Walery Antoni Stanisaw Buhak of Syrokomla and Jzefa ne Haciska of Roch, both local landowners in Ostaszyn. In the village of Worocza near Navahrudak, not far from St. Anns Roman Catholic church , there are four graves of Jan Buhaks ancestors.

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