{"id":880,"date":"2006-09-02T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=880"},"modified":"2012-06-10T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T21:34:47","slug":"karel-plickas-views-of-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/02\/karel-plickas-views-of-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Karel Plicka&#8217;s views of Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080721222819\/http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/SoHo\/Museum\/8023\/plicka_index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/plicka.jpg\" alt=\"plicka.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bridge Street, from <\/em>Prague in Pictures<em> (1940).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A shame there isn&#8217;t more of Plicka&#8217;s atmospheric photography on the web, his views of Prague present the city the way we usually imagine it from the stories of Kafka and Gustav Meyrinck. <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080721222819\/http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/SoHo\/Museum\/8023\/plicka_index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">This site<\/a> features a very small selection from the 220 plates that comprise his <em>Prague in Pictures<\/em> book. Taschen have published a collection of Atget&#8217;s famous photographs of Paris; the &#8220;Ansel Adams of Czechoslovakia&#8221; is overdue for a similar reappraisal.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/25\/giant-mantis-invades-prague\/\">Giant mantis invades Prague<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/24\/atgets-paris\/\">Atget&#8217;s Paris<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/01\/bartas-golem\/\">Barta&#8217;s Golem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridge Street, from Prague in Pictures (1940). A shame there isn&#8217;t more of Plicka&#8217;s atmospheric photography on the web, his views of Prague present the city the way we usually imagine it from the stories of Kafka and Gustav Meyrinck. This site features a very small selection from the 220 plates that comprise his Prague &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/02\/karel-plickas-views-of-prague\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Karel Plicka&#8217;s views 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,42,51,12],"tags":[1013,402,146],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-books","category-cities","category-photography","tag-franz-kafka","tag-golem","tag-prague"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-ec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}