Michal Cala
This Vintage Print is extremly rare as it has been printed on warm tonned paper giving a slight sepia effect. See the additional image for the vintage print refernce. It is one of the last remaining vintage prints of this image availble here to purchase.
Victoria Power Plant with four chimneys is one of those most iconic industrial photographs from the Silesia series.
There are printed later silver gelatin (2005) and modern silver gelatin print (2018) also availble. All hand printed by the photographer himself. Signed and dated in pencil on verso. Please enquire for more details regarding printed later or modern prints.
"Cala become relatively well known in Poland but he is still little known in the West, despite the fact that his work bears comparison with masters such as Bill Brandt and Robert Frank."
- Bill Kouwenhoven, British Journal of Photography, 2007
Michal Cala was born in Toruń, Poland in 1948 and studied aircraft construction in Warsaw at the University of Technology in the early 1970's. From 1974 to 1983 he worked as an engineer in various companies in Silesia, and began photographing in the area. In 1977, he moved to Tychy in Upper Silesia, where he co-founded the photographers' association KRON and become a member of the ZPAF - the Union of Polish Art Photographers.
Publications on his work include The Anthology of Polish Photography 1839 - 1989, The Masters of Polish Landscape and The Polish Photography in the 20th Century.
His latest exhibition Metropolis on Silesian urban landscapes was held at the Silesian Museum in Katowice in 2013 and a solo show Silesia and Galicia in the Museum of History of Photography in 2016 in Krakow (Poland). His photo book based on the same series was recently selected in the Open Submission at Belfast and Athens Photo Festivals respectively (2017).
