Juwenalia i Czarne Juwenalia 1977 – migawki. Prezentacja fotografii Jaroslava Pulicara

Abstract

JUWENALIA AND BLACK JUWENALIA 1977 – PHOTO SHOTS. A PRESENTATION OF JAROSLAV PULICAR’S PHOTOGRAPHS

The objective of the paper is to present the works of a Czech photographer Jaroslav Pulicar acquired by the Museum of Kraków for its collection in 2023. The photographs, taken in May 1977 during the student festival juwenalia and the Black Juwenalia have been set in the context of the events that preceded the festival, namely Stanisław Pyjas’ death in unclear circumstances and the reaction of the victim’s friends who, aided by the political activists from the Workers’ Defence Committee, announced a period of mourning and imposed a boycott of the juwenalia. The paper discusses the dual perspective of the photographer who, at the time he was documenting the said events in Kraków, was a university student himself, while also being a foreigner speaking a foreign language, unaware of the circumstances he had found himself in, and regarding the reality from an external perspective.