{"id":2685,"date":"2012-12-20T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrew.albert-visuals.at\/buffet\/michal-luczak-brutal\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:25:23","slug":"michal-luczak-brutal","status":"publish","type":"buffet","link":"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/de\/buffet\/michal-luczak-brutal\/","title":{"rendered":"Michal Luczak &#8211; Brutal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">This book from the Polish photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/michal-luczak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michal Luczak<\/a> was one of my favorite discoveries this fall when I was invited to talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiff.wroc.pl\/tekst\/publikacje\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIFF<\/a> photography festival. It is a work which Michal made between June 2010 and January 2011 at the now destroyed Katowice rail station in Poland. The term &#8220;brutalist&#8221; architecture refers to a certain style of architecture dominant between the 50s and 70s, lots of concrete, modernist, blockish and fortress like. This building was considered to be the last example of this era in Poland.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #373737; font-weight: 300; line-height: 12px;\">&#8230;.Katowice Railway Station constructed in 1972 was a high-standard building. Raw concrete constructions were at the time a symbol of modernity and prosperity of Polish People\u00d5s Republic. Only a decade later neglected building began to fall into ruins. Even 21 years of independent Poland didn\u00d5t help and the condition of the building continued to fall. Nobody felt responsible for it.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #373737; font-weight: 300; line-height: 12px;\">A ruin in the city center of the biggest, postindustrial coal-mining district in Poland started to live its own life. On one hand it was still a place were people got on and off the trains but on the other it became an area of uncommon &#8220;passengers&#8221; who didn&#8217;t have any tickets and never got on any train. They where the ones who created there some kind of a parallel world which existed on the sidelines of normal life.<\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #373737; font-weight: 300; line-height: 12px;\">ML<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">A big and bold design, it is a large book and feels a bit like a building with beautiful full spread b\/w portraits and architecture details.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It is limited to 300 signed copies so try to look for it soon.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I included it on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/magazine_admin\/index.cfm\/bestbooks.2012.list\/author_id\/23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo-Eye Best Books list for 2012<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-111.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-400\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-112.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-401\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-113.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-402\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-114.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-403\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-115.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" width=\"840\" height=\"536\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-116.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-405\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-117.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-406\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-118.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-119.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BRUTAL TEASER\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/50390996?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2686,"template":"","class_list":["post-2685","buffet","type-buffet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michal Luczak - Brutal - Andrew Phelps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/andrew-phelps.com\/buffet\/michal-luczak-brutal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michal Luczak - Brutal - Andrew Phelps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This book from the Polish photographer Michal Luczak was one of my favorite discoveries this fall when I was invited to talk at the TIFF photography festival. 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