Wojciech Kryński
WARSAW, THE OLD TOWN
design
Maciej Buszewicz
96 pages
64 color photographs
format 240 x 300 mm
hardcover with jacket
Polish/English
ISBN 83-88279-20-3
list price PLZ 80
edition sold out
Warsaw's history makes it a special city. It's greatest pride
is the Old Town, a monument of the worl's cultural heritage. This
album presents the loveliest corners of Warsaw's Old Town, conveying
the distinctive atmosphere of places that signify Polish culture
and national identity. Wojciech Kryńsk's photographs invite the
reader to discover the mysteries of Poland's capital. Professor
Marek Kwiatkowsk's introduction ties Warsaw's past and present
together, and Jerzy Majewsk's captions tell the history of the
subjects pictured, and interesting facts.
"The photos in which light battles shadow make the greatest
impression. Then the Old Town becomes enigmatic and imperious.
Nothing -no cafe parasols, no paintings, no people - obscures
its beauty and opulence. The details of the ornamented facades,
the stylized lamps, the sculptures that the town houses are named
after, the wrought metal signs, the gargoyles in the form of dragons,
the sundial..."
Gazeta Wyborcza, 11/28/2002
