{"product_id":"antonin-kratochvil-antonn-kratochvl-9788074372087","title":"Antonin Kratochvil: Circus Sideshow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCreated in 1973-74 and previously unpublished in English in its entirety, \u003ci\u003eCircus Sideshow\u003c\/i\u003e, by Czech-born American photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil (born 1947), offers an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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisiting 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 \u003ci\u003eAmerican Photo\u003c\/i\u003e, which the magazine's art director, Jean-Jacques Naudet, printed as a ten-page report. \u003ci\u003eCircus Sideshow\u003c\/i\u003e documents an amazing lost American subculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anton? Kratochv?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8074372081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788074372087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 9.30w x 0.50d","brand":"Anton? Kratochv?","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983500148991,"sku":"9788074372087","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c6af9284-fc7e-4dfe-a374-f22414d20512.jpg?v=1683267017","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/antonin-kratochvil-antonn-kratochvl-9788074372087","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}