Celina Osiecka, the last little analog photo studio in Saska Kępa, Warsaw

David A. Goldfarb

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"Once a man came in with a fish bigger than himself. I photographed it. Celina Osiecka--the last photographer of her kind in Saska Kępa."

This article is in Polish, but look at the images and maybe Google Translate can help out with the text.

Celina Osiecka is one of the last proprieters of one of these little photo shops (meaning a shop where someone makes photos) for making ID shots, family portraits, headshots, pet portraits, and such, with no digital equipment of any sort. She says she has tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of negatives, neatly filed in archive boxes from every client who has walked through the door in the past fifty years. She uses a Pentacon Six TL.

http://metrowarszawa.gazeta.pl/metr...a-fotografka-z-saskiej-kepie-opowiada.html#MT
 

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Thanks David - that is a great read (even if Google translate isn't exactly perfect).
 

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What a wonderful story. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks for the link.

"Photos Osiecka are remarkable lady, an old school, not to counterfeit."

"People appreciate me for the fact that I only black and white..."



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Many thanks for that link.

I have to say though, there are tripods and then there is her tripod, built like a tank.

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David A. Goldfarb

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I was impressed by that studio stand as well. Looks like it might have the Linhof crest on it and seems to be the 1970's Linhof tan. I had a Linhof pedestal stand once, but with a pneumatic column rather than a geared column, and not as beefy as hers. I also used to have a Pentacon 6, not unlike hers, which looks like a later verson of mine.
 

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small world. alina straszkiewicz took all my ID pictures between my first and nineteenth birthday, right there, in her aleje niepodleglosci studio. the studio was just around the corner from me. then i left the country for 30 years. i checked not long ago, the studio was still there, same last name, different first name, also female--daughter? granddaughter?

don't tell me i caught this bloody bug there, too!
 

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Nice article. I wonder what lens she has on her camera -- appears to be a telephoto, but looks big for a short telephoto.
 

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It seems to look like a Zeiss-Jena 180mm f2,8 Sonnar to me. That might be a bit long for inside in a studio? Alternatively there is a 120mm f2,8 Biometar but that is much slimmer. I use those lenses and two P6 bodies. They work fine when they are cleaned and rebuilt, but this is pretty much essential as most were simply abandoned in a damp cupboard when Western or Japanese cameras, and digital, turned up on the scene.
 

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One might try bing translator, I have found it to be more accurate a lot of times

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