A monumental, meticulously designed travel album portraying iconic landscapes, historical sites and modern developments in the Poland of the nineteen thirties. The photographs, which were selected by Ferdynand Goetel, came from the collection of the Ministry of Transport’s Tourism Department. The photographers were the leading travel photography specialists at the time. The ministry acquired photos from them for promotional and propaganda purposes.
author:
Ferdynand Goetel
title:
Polska
year of publication:
1938
photographs:
A. Błaż, Jan Bułhak, Zofia Chomętowska, A. Czarnecki, Girs-Barcz, Jan Jaroszyński, Stanisław Kolowca, Stanisław Mucha, Witold Pikiel, Stefan Plater-Zyberk, Henryk Poddębski, Tadeusz Przypkowski, T. Rapf, Jan Ryś, Henryk Schabenbeck, Roman Serafin, Stanisław Szalay, J. Tomaszewski, Roman Ulatowski, S. Zajczyk, Adam Zieliński
text:
Ferdynand Goetel
language:
Polish, French (captions also in English and German)
design:
Anatol Girs i Bolesław Barcz
publisher:
Główna Księgarnia Wojskowa
place of publication:
Warszawa
pages:
206+124
format:
316 x 255
binding:
hardcover
printing technique:
rotogravure
print run:
ISBN: