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Warsaw modern : architecture photography of the 1930s
- Title
- Warsaw modern : architecture photography of the 1930s / Czesław Olszewski ; edited by Łukasz Gorczyca, Piotr Jamski, Michał Kaczyński, Marta Leśniakowska.
- Author
- Olszewski, Czesław, 1894-1969
- Publication
- Warszawa : Fundacja Raster, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NA1455.P62 W3745 2012g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 346 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- This album of photographs by Czeslaw Olszewski is a unique cultural testament to the decade just prior to the outbreak of World War II. It is a fascinating voyage to the "Warsaw of the future" via the city's modernist architecture. The album is an attempt to revive the integrity of the Warsaw Architecture School of the interwar period. Yet it is also a narrative of the visionary modernist perspective, of how architecture creates a new spatial and aesthetic order, and how photography invokes an awareness of this order within us. The album presents close to 300 archive photographs of selected architectural structures in Warsaw, including public buildings, residential estates and villas, as well as the modernised highways of the 1930s. These photographs were scanned from the original, glass negatives. When possible, the photographer's original frames were restored on the basis of existing notes.
- Uniform Title
- Warszawa nowoczesna. English
- Alternative Title
- Warszawa nowoczesna.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9788393288427
- 8393288428
- OCLC
- ocn847627770
- 847627770
- SCSB-5701309
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries