Streets of Crocodiles
Streets of Crocodiles
- ISBN 13:
9781841503653
- ISBN 10:
1841503657
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 02/15/2011
- Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E
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Summary
This powerful presentation of photographs of Poland from the late 1980s to the present depicts the hybridized landscape of this pivotal Eastern European nation following its entry into the European Union. A visual record of the country's transition from socialism to capitalism, it focuses on the industrial blue-collar city ofLodzlocated in the heart of New Europe and home to nearly one million people. Photographer Kamil Turowski's monotones are captivatingseeming to conceal a looming threatwhile Katarzyna Marciniak's accompanying text expands on the photos and the "crocodilian" texture of contemporary Eastern Europe. A walk on the wild side,Streets of Crocodilescaptures viscerally the changing landscape of postsocialist Poland.