Warsaw modern
Subtitle: architecture photography of the 1930s
By: Czesław Olszewski ; edited by Łukasz Gorczyca, Piotr Jamski, Michał Kaczyński, Marta Leśniakowska
Contributors: Gorczyca, Łukasz, editor; Jamski, Piotr Jacek, editor; Kaczyński, Michał, 1974-, editor; Leśniakowska, Marta, editor; Olszewski, Czesław, 1894-1969
Edition: First English edition.
Publisher: Fundacja Raster
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Warszawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9788393288427
Subjects: Pictorial works; Buildings, structures; Architecture; Catalogs
Work titles: Warszawa nowoczesna
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.