Circus Sideshow

Antonin Kratochvil
9788074372087 / 8074372081
Circus Sideshow

Circus Sideshow

Antonin Kratochvil
9788074372087 / 8074372081
Publisher Kant
Edition Hardcover , 84 Pages
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Publisher's description

Created in 1973–74 and previously unpublished in English in its entirety, Circus Sideshow, by Czech-born American photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil (born 1947), offers an amazing pageant of tightrope walkers, jugglers, snake women, giants, dwarves, contortionists and fire eaters at a circus in Gibsonton, Florida, a small coastal town near Tampa.The town was then known as a winter vacation hotspot for circuses, a place to recharge before setting out on their spring and summer cross-country tours.Visiting the mobile homes, caravans and trailers of the performers, and walking through their narrow alleys and circus tents, Kratochvil was able to photograph freely and intimately, and his black-and-white photographs testify to his vision of them as people expelled from society, but [who] were able to maintain their dignity. In 1974 he sent his photographs to the New York editorial office of American Photo, which the magazine’s art director, Jean-Jacques Naudet, printed as a ten-page report. Circus Sideshow documents an amazing lost American subculture.

Specifications

Book title Circus Sideshow
Photographer Antonin Kratochvil
ISBN 10 8074372081 / 80-7437-208-1       
ISBN 13 9788074372087 / 978-80-7437-208-7
Publisher Kant
Publish date Dec 2017
Book format Hardcover
Pages 84 Pages
Dimensions 23,5 x 21,5 cm / 9.25 x 8.5 inches

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