In 1970, Aleksander Minorski photographed a young couple at the summit of Szczęśliwice Hill — their bicycles leaning against the slope, a modernist housing estate rising on the horizon.

An archival photograph of pre-war Warsaw at Wolska 185–189 — a soap manufacture, wooden tenements below street level, and a boy on a bicycle who outlived them all.

In 1970 Warsaw, Aleksander Minorski framed girls on bicycles racing past ruins — a visual elegy for a city rebuilding itself from its own bricks.