{"id":17249,"date":"2015-09-17T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17249"},"modified":"2015-09-17T01:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T00:00:56","slug":"the-face-of-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/09\/17\/the-face-of-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"The Face of Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prague01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/prague01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More from the city of the alchemists. I downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/faceofpraguelima00prag\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Face of Prague<\/em><\/a> (1951 or 59) several years ago but never posted anything here since many of the photos are lacking Karel Plicka&#8217;s skill at framing an architectural view. But here&#8217;s a selection of shots anyway. The book has text in English and French by Jiri K\u00f6rber, while the photographs are credited to M. Kucera. As usual with this kind of photography, I favour the moodier images and enclosed spaces.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prague02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/prague02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prague03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/prague03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prague04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/prague04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prague05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/prague05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prague06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/prague06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prague07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/prague07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/09\/16\/josef-sudek\/\">Josef Sudek<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/02\/karel-plickas-views-of-prague\/\">Karel Plicka\u2019s views of Prague<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from the city of the alchemists. I downloaded The Face of Prague (1951 or 59) several years ago but never posted anything here since many of the photos are lacking Karel Plicka&#8217;s skill at framing an architectural view. But here&#8217;s a selection of shots anyway. The book has text in English and French by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/09\/17\/the-face-of-prague\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Face of Prague&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,51,12],"tags":[7618,3789,7619,146],"class_list":["post-17249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-cities","category-photography","tag-jiri-korber","tag-karel-plicka","tag-m-kucera","tag-prague"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4ud","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}