Circus Sideshow

Circus Sideshow
Author: Antonin Kratochvil
Publisher: Kant
Language: English / Czech
Pages:
Size: 21 x 23 cm
Weight: 800 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-80-7437-208-7
Price: €25.00
Product Description

Antonín Kratochvíl’s photographs from his extensive photo essay Sideshow were taken in Gibsonton, Florida, the center of a very distinct branch of the entertainment industry. Besides the usual tightrope walkers, jugglers, snake ladies, and fire eaters, a vast array of people bearing various disfigurements also march past, exhibited to audiences as freaks of nature. First published in American Photo in 1974, the complete set of photographs is now being presented for the first time in a book. Sideshow can be considered Antonín Kratochvíl’s first important stop on his journey in search of the nature of human and artistic existence. The way in which he works with light and composition presages his future work, which earned him international acclaim as a photographer.