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"Bialy Kruk" ("White Crow") Publishers of Krakow recently published an album titled Poland. Home of a Thousand Year Old Nation.
The volume contains photographs by renowned photographer Adam Bujak and
a text by professor Janusz Dobesz, an art historian and architect.
"Several years ago I came up with the idea for a book about the
history of Polish architecture that would not be academic but rather
understandable to everyone," said professor Dobesz at the press
conference announcing the release of the volume. "I needed some
wonderful photographs to complement the text. Adam Bujak, an outstanding
photographer, expressed interest in the idea. We came to an agreement
and thus produced this album."
The publication contains two hundred forty photographs of "Polish
homes." The images depict both well-known and wondrous achievements of
Polish architecture, as well as lesser-known buildings that are hardly
celebrated for their design.
"This was the first time I decided to create photographs according to
someone else's script," added Adam Bujak. "In effect, I adjusted my
efforts to fit someone else's concept. Let others judge the result. I
used a minimum of archival photos; the vast majority of the images were
created specifically for this album."
The volume covers buildings erected in Poland during the last one
thousand years. It includes discussions of the caves located in the area
of Ojcow that were home to our ancestors, the defensive town of
Biskupin, and the homes of kings - Wawel Castle in Krakow and the Royal Palace in Warsaw.
Also covered are the famous "Wagon of Drzymala", various castles and
palaces of the aristocracy, the manors of the nobility, the homesteads
of peasants, both historical and contemporary urban architecture, as
well as churches, cathedrals and monasteries.
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Features
- Hardcover
- English Language Edition
- 3rd Edition 2014
- 231 pages
- Color Photographs
- Size 9.5" x 12.5" - (24cm x 32cm)
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