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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wrocław art
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 09:44:41 -0500
References: <ADCDBB2A-2942-4796-AFFA-91099533715E@frozenlight.eu>

Thanks for the wonderful tour of Wroclaw.  I'm sure it took a lot of 
walking to get all of the angles and visit all of these places.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/7/2017 1:03 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> My weeklong trip to Belgium, Germany and Poland during the penultimate 
> week of June ended in the city of Wroc?aw in south-western Poland, the 
> place where I was born and where my sister lives. I spent a weekend there, 
> the weather was good, the days are long this time of year, so despite the 
> short visit I took a lot of pictures. Wroc?aw is a city of about 700,000 
> people with a large university and an international ambience. A lot of 
> foreign investment has poured into the city since 1989, and it shows: new 
> shopping malls, an Amazon distribution centre outside the city, lots of 
> other companies creating jobs. But also restoration of old parts of the 
> city, a new university campus near my sister?s place, new art 
> galleries?the latter spurred on by Wroc?aw being the European Capital of 
> Culture in 2016. As usual, I spent a lot of time looking at art, in a 
> couple of places: a WWII bunker that is now a modern art gallery (and 
> which I always visit), and a newly restored place called Four Domes 
> Pavillon near the Century Tower. It used to be a film studio, where people 
> like Andrzej Wajda made films back in the 1950s and 1960s. It then fell 
> into disrepair, but has now been beautifully restored and turned into a 
> branch of the national art museum, focusing on contemporary art. Just my 
> thing!
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> Ninety-one images from a place most of you have never visited:
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> http://www.frozenlight.eu/wro_june2017/
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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