Wojciech Kryński
PARKS AND GARDENS
OF WARSAWdesign Maciej Buszewicz
104 pages
72 color plates
format 265 x 380 mm
hardcover with jacket
Polish/English
ISBN 83-906554-7-0
edition sold out
Main Prize, Polish Association of Book Publishers XXXIX Competition for Most Beautiful Books of the Year, awarded April 1999. The album conveys the beauty of Warsaw's parks and gardens. It captures their individuality and picturesqueness, the fruit of centuries of the landscape planner's art. The romantic photographs are interspersed with poetry by Stanisław Baliński. With an introduction by the eminent art historian Professor Marek Kwiatkowski.
"The album can serve as a one-of-a-kind guide through Warsaw. It shows tourists the prettiest places in the capital city, and reminds Warsaw natives that the city is not only the grey and dirty downtown core.... So Warsaw was and is a city of gardens. And this is its pride,' adds Professor Kwiatkowski. It is hard not to believe that, looking at Wojciech Kryński's beautiful photographs."
Joanna Habiera, Magazyn Literacki, 6-7/99
