In the passage between the waiting room and the studio, we present enlarged views of Bernard Henner’s first studio, located in the Market Square “next to the Imperial-Royal Court.” The illustration comes from a vignette, or rather one of several used by Henner, placed on the back of a photographic card. It is a low, single-story building surrounded by greenery, with a low, decorative fence. The building consists of three sections, distinctly different in shape and construction material. Considering descriptions of photography studios from the second half of the 19th century, the first building, entered via three steps through a covered porch, is a large, elegant waiting room. The second, appearing to be perpendicular to the waiting room, with a glass wall and at least one roof, is the studio, while the last and smallest is likely a “backroom” with a darkroom, retouching room, and perhaps also a bookbinding workshop. Due to the small size of the original, not all details are legible. The entrance to the waiting room is on the side wall, and the porch roof is supported by decorative supports, likely in the form of caryatids. Above the front wall, on the edge of the roof, is a large sign with the inscription B. HENNER. The wall features three windows topped with cornices, with window sills supported by consoles. The wall surface is covered with a regular grid; it is unclear whether these are intended to be bricks or plant trellises. A slightly larger grid is visible on the roof, possibly intended to be tiles. The studio building is covered with vertical planking at the foundation level, and above that, as mentioned, it is glazed. The last building juts out in front of the second, with a gridded side wall, and the roof is covered with wide, transverse panels of an indeterminate material. Four rectangles are visible on the face of the front wall, which it is impossible to tell whether they are windows or decorative elements. The illustrations on the vignettes, though difficult to read, are the only known views of Henner’s first studio. The building has not survived, nor has its exact location been determined. It is not listed in Przemyśl street directories, so it was likely a building of fragile construction, perhaps entirely wooden. Since the 1990s, Henner’s photography studio was located at 6 Mickiewicza Street.
