# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-bu-hak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:32:17.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-bu-hak"
name: "Jan Bułhak"
slug: "jan-bu-hak"
description: "Jan Brunon Bułhak (1876–1950) was an early 20th century photographer in Poland and present-day Belarus and Lithuania. A published theoretician and philosopher of photography, he was an exponent of pictorialism. He is best known for his landscapes and photographs of various places, especially the city of Vilnius. He was the founder of the Wilno Photoclub and Polish Photoclub, the predecessors of the modern Union of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF), of which he was an honorary office-holder. He is also known as an ethnographer and folklorist."
tagline: "Polish photographer (1876–1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Bulhak_colorisation.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1876-10-06"
deathDate: "1950-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1530612244897959
  historical:           10.55482533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "چان بولهاك"
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    title: "Jan Bułhak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bu%C5%82hak"
    title: "Jan Bułhak"
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    title: "Jan Bułhak"
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  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bu%C5%82hak"
    title: "Jan Bułhak"
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  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jans_Bulhaks"
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    title: "Jan Bułhak"
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    title: "Булгак, Ян"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump