Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
KRONIKA OLSZTYŃSKA

design Maciej Buszewicz
illustrated with photographs by Mieczysław Wieliczko
96 pages
45 color photographs
format 240 x 300 mm
hardcover, Polish
ISBN 83-88279-00-9
list price PLZ 72

The newest edition of Konstanty Gałczyński's celebrated poem, with an introduction by his daughter Kira Gałczyńska. The album combines the verses with images of the beautiful landscape of Warmia and Masuria of which the poem speaks. Each of the poem's twenty-one parts is accompanied by a photograph conveying the essence of the work and the atmosphere of the places connected with it. The reader rediscovers the beauty of the poem thanks to Mieczy-sław Wieliczko's photographs and a scheme of presentation originating from the latest trends in book design.

"Each large photo filling the album's double-spreads is preceded a page earlier by a less sharp, enlarged fragment of it, like a first fleeting glance, and Gałczyński's verses next to it are swept by the discreet shadow of the letters across the whole page, like a flock of birds flying away... It is a lovely expression of the poet's plea: +Summer, stay a while!' A very beautiful album."
Gazeta Wyborcza, 6/20/2001

 

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