“Kulisy teatru” (Backstage), Hartwig’s second most famous album after “Fotografika” (Artistic Photography), is a subjective, modern and, at times, experimental artistic work of photojournalism. Alongside the genre scenes captured backstage, there are still lifes and details, rasterised and well-nigh abstract records of the play of light and movement onstage. Portraits of actors and other theatre people predominate, giving the book a humanist expressiveness.
There are two variations on the dust jacket. Two subsequent editions of the album came out in 1974 and 1983.
Łukasz Gorczyca, Tematy i wariacje. Książki fotograficzne Edwarda Hartwiga [w:] Edward Hartwig. Fotografiki, Warszawa 2019, s. 171-203; polishphotobooks blog
author:
title:
Kulisy teatru
year of publication:
1969
photographs:
text:
Edward Csato
language:
Polish
design:
Tadeusz Kobyłka (obwoluta, okładka, strony tytułowe), Zbigniew Weiss (typografia)
publisher:
Arkady
place of publication:
Warszawa
pages:
264
format:
220 x 235
binding:
cloth hardcover with dustjacket
printing technique:
rotogravure
print run:
10200
ISBN: