Officer Cadet Corporal Andrzej Bargiełowski “Stańczyk” was born on 3 January 1921 in Warsaw, where he attended the Stanisław Kostka Middle School. During the occupation, he worked for ”Jan Sudecki” company andstudied at the underground courses of the Warsaw School of Economics from 1941 to 1944. In the underground, Bargiełowski was an active member of the O 1 Company in the “Baszta” Regiment. Unable to link up with his unit during the Rising, he fought in the 2nd Company of the ”Golski” Battalion City Centre South. Following the Uprising, Bargiełowski was deported to Stalag X B in Sandbostel. After the war, he worked at the Film Institute in Łódź and the Documentary Film Studio in Warsaw. He died on 6 August 2010 in Warsaw.
The author used a Kodak Retina II camera which he received as a high school graduation present in May 1939. During the Rising, he took 111 photos on Agfa Aeropan and Mimosa films. All of the photographs were taken in the first 10 days of August in the area of Marszałkowska, Polna, 6 Sierpnia, Lwowska, Koszykowa, and Piękna Streets in City Centre South. The negatives were saved by the author’s father, Józef Bargiełowski. Andrzej Bargiełowski’s photographs are categorised as amateur photos taken by soldiers in their free time when off frontline duties. In his photos, Bargiełowski depicted his comrades from the “Golski” Battalion and documented the construction of barricades by the civilian population.
