Created in 1973–74 and previously unpublished in English in its entirety, Circus Sideshow, by Czech-born American photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil (born 1947), offers an amazing pageant of tightrope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.
The 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.
Visiting 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 American Photo, which the magazine’s art director, Jean-Jacques Naudet, printed as a ten-page report. Circus Sideshow documents an amazing lost American subculture. 由捷克出生的美国摄影记者安东尼·克拉托奇维尔(Antonin Kratochvil,1947年出生)创作于1973年至74年,之前未出版过完整的英文版《马戏团侧秀》,在坦帕附近的一个海滨小镇,佛罗里达州吉布森顿的一个马戏团里,上演了一场由走钢丝者、杂耍者、蛇女、巨人、矮人、扭曲者和食火者组成的精彩表演。
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