Yulian-Yurii Dorosh
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Yulian-Yurii Dorosh | |
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| Юліан-Юрій Омелянович Дорош | |
 Y. Dorosh. Lviv, 1929 | |
| Born | 9 June 1909 |
| Died | 20 July 1982 (aged 73) |
| Other names | University of Lviv |
| Occupations | Photographer-artist, cinematographer, ethnographer, local historian |
Yulian-Yurii Dorosh (Ukrainian: Юліан-Юрій Омелянович Дорош; 9 June 1909 – 20 July 1982) was a Ukrainian photographer-artist, pioneer of Ukrainian cinematography in Galicia, ethnographer, local historian. Member of the Ukrainian Photographic Society.
Yulian Dorosh was born on 9 June 1909 in the family of an Austrian customs officer in Zhydachiv. Later, his father was transferred to the Ternopil Oblast, and Yulian spent his childhood in Kopychyntsi. In the early 1920s, the Dorosh family settled in Stanyslaviv, where Yulian graduated from a Ukrainian gymnasium. There he joined Plast, where he first picked up a camera. From that time on, Dorosh has been keeping a photo chronicle of Plast camps. Dorosh belonged to the 11th kuren named after Ivan Mazepa. He was a member of the 15th kuren of the Order of the Iron Ostroh, Grand Chancellor of the kuren, and a wagoner of the traveling and permanent kuren camp in the summer of 1930. Member of the OPC Lviv (1929), sub-referent of photographs of the economic essay of the Supreme Plast Team (1928-1930), awarded a letter of commendation (1930).
In 1927-1932 he studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Lviv. Yulian Dorosh's life was connected with Vynnyky. Here, in the family of his uncle, writer and teacher Antin Krushelnytskyi, Yulian Dorosh lived while studying at the Law Faculty of the University of Lviv (in the family of his cousins Ivan and Taras, the writer's sons). At the time, Krushelnytskyi published the "Novi Shliakhy" magazine, which brought together Ukrainian poets, avant-garde artists, critics, and architects. This period had a significant impact on Dorosh's worldview and future work. From that time on, he began his regular collaboration with many Ukrainian publications in Lviv ("Dni", "Zhyttia i Znannia", "Kino", "Svitlo i Tin" and "Ukrainski Visti"), and he also wrote amateur photography columns in the Plast magazines "Vohni" and "Molode Zhyttia", as well as in the newspaper "Nedilia", where he was a co-editor.
After the Krushelnytskyi family left for Soviet Ukraine, Dorosh had problems with housing and employment. His friends offered him a job as a photographer and translator at the Warsaw-based scientific Society of Hutsul Supporters, which annually collected ethnographic material in the Carpathians. It was the materials collected during his work at the Society that formed the basis of the exhibition "Our Motherland in the Photo" (1935), organized by the Ukrainian Photographic Society in Lviv.
On the eve of the World War II, Yaroslav Pasternak (who knew Dorosh from his time at the Ukrainian Photographic Society) conducted archaeological excavations in princely Halych (Krylos), which Dorosh photographed at his invitation.
In 1939, Dorosh, along with Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Vasyl Sofroniv-Levytskyi, traveled to the Carpathians (Kosiv, Kuty, Kryvorivnia). In Zhabie, they filmed a Hutsul wedding with a married couple, horses, pistols, and shooting.
The war years were unproductive for him, and he barely took a few family photos.
In 1946, a new period in the life of the master began, marked by a number of creative achievements. In 1956-1965, Dorosh worked as a photographer at the Department of Archeology of the Institute of Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He participated in archaeological expeditions of the Institute. His photographs were published in works on archeology, ethnography, folk art, and exhibited at three personal exhibitions. He got a job as a photographer at the Lviv Historical Museum, worked at the Department of History of Technology at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, and was one of the first in Lviv to master the technique of color photography.
In 1956, at the suggestion of Ivan Krypiakevych, Dorosh organized a photographic laboratory at the Department of Archeology of the Institute of Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he printed illustrations for guidebooks, albums, and books ("Historical Walks in Lviv", etc.).
A street in Lviv was named in honor of Yulian Dorosh in 1993.
