Wojciech Migacz

Place: Gostwica Near Nowy Sącz

Born: 1874

Death: 1944

Biography:

Wojciech Migacz was a Polish rural photographer and gramophone designer. He was born on September 7, 1874 in Gostwica near Nowy Sącz to a wealthy peasant family. He completed his education at the Cesarsko-Królewską Szkołę Przemysłu Drzewnego in Zakopanem. Migacz is known for his self-made camera and his documentation of the life of the Nowy Sącz region and its people at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He died on December 24, 1944.