Raport w sprawie Ostrorogów – aneks fotograficzny
The Ostroróg report – photographic appendix

Summary/Abstract: Based on the analysis of photographs and reproductions from his own collection, the author aims to discover more about Stanisław Julian (1834–1890, father) and Stanisław Ignacy (1863–1934, son) Ostroróg, who both applied the same pseudonym “Walery”. He also questions some of the already known facts from their biographies. He writes about a photograph on porcelain from 1870 presenting a young lady (ill. 5) suggesting that Stanisław Julian Ostroróg was using this technique. He recalls the fact that Ostroróg’s photographs (ill. 6-7) were published in 1870s by Ludvic Beschet in Galerie Contemporaine, in which the woodburytype portraits of famous people by most exquisite photographs were also published. The author considers the possibility that Stanisław Julian Ostroróg interrupted his photographic career for six years and had actually sold his Paris studio at 9bis, rue de Londres towards the end of 1870s; because his son started to work under the same address from 1900. He also points out that 1884 as the date of the opening of the fi rst studio in London is far too late and as proof presents the photograph of a man on porcelain from 1882 (ill. 10). Following the death of his father in 1890 Stanisław Julian Ostroróg kept the London studio until 1908, working with Alfred Ellis, although, fi nally, left for Paris to open his own studio, specialising in photographs of vaudeville actors from Folies Bergères, Moulin Rouge, L’European and Casino de Paris (ill. 13 a-c). He was awarded for the series of female acts reproduced in photogravure in Nus. Cent Photographies Originales de Laryew and published in the 1920s under a pseudonym (ill. 14 a-b, 15 a-b, 16 a-b).

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