Czesław Miłosz w obiektywie: nieznane zdjęcia

Abstract

The photographs presented in the book come from the archive of Wojciech Kass, who, in the years 1990–1997, was a journalist of the local newspaper (initially entitled “Tygodnik Sopot” (Sopot Weekly) and then “Gazeta Miasta Sopot” (The Sopot City Gazette)”, also working as the editor-in-chief, the spokesman for the Municipal Office and the President of the Sopot Culture Society. He was also one of the organisers and coordinators of the visits of the Noble Prize winner in Sopot in the years 1993, 1995, and 1996.The authors of the photos are: Leszek Pruszek, a photographer who co-operated with the Sopot newspaper, Andrzej Ostrowski who died in 2020, a member of the city council, President of the publishing houses “Pionier” and “Oficyna Sopot” that published, among others, the newspapers “Tygodnik Sopot” and “Gazeta Miasta Sopot”, Halina Czyczyro, the accountant at the publishing house, Wojciech Kass, and Maciej Wołowicz – son-in-law of a distant cousin of Czesław Miłosz who lived in Sopot and who was referred to as the guardian of the tomb of the Kunat-Miłosz-Lipski families located in the Catholic cemetery.