Karol Beyer – Warsaw’s foremost pioneer photographer. An album and exhibition presenting unique photographs taken 150 years ago
A new DSH and National Museum album entitled ‘Karol Beyer 1818-1877’ is now available in the 20th Century Bookshop, and Beyer’s photographs can be viewed at the open-air exhibition in Jan Twardowski Square.
The City on Glass Negatives. Warsaw 1916 in Willy Römer’s Photographs
Dual language publication – text in Polish and in English. The photo-album The City on Glass Negatives is a collection of over 60 photographs by Willy Römer, never previously published in Poland. They reveal the city of Warsaw and its surrounding areas in 1916.
The Shrines of Warsaw
English language edition. This book received an honorary award from the Association of History Devotees for the best book on the history of Warsaw in 2008/2009. The album features shrines from Warsaw’s courtyards.
The Theatre of the Eighth Day
Dual language edition – Polish and English.
This photo album is the first to document the entire history of the Theatre of the Eighth Day. The Theatre of the Eighth Day is unique. It has been going strong for 45 years now and, although it has an almost legendary status as the foremost post-war avantgarde Polish theatre, it is also a live form provoking enormous emotions, yet a stage which cannot by any means be described as monumental.
The Road to Solidarity. 1975-1980.
The story begins with a reminder of the protests against changes to the Constitution in 1975 and 1976 (The Memorandum of the 59 Intellectuals), the appearance of successive opposition movements (KOR, WZZ, ROPCiO) and the development of the underground press and publications – all set against the official view of life in the Polish People’s Republic
A Carnival under Sentence. Solidarność 1980-81
English language edition.
This album is part of a series of publications dealing with key events in contemporary Polish history, recounted in words and pictures.
Martial Law. Communism’s Last Stand
English language edition. The book opens with accounts dating from 12 December 1981, and ends with material from September 1986, and the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party to extend the July amnesty to all political prisoners.
1989. The Final Courtain
English language edition.
This publication accompanies the Switch-off the system events, prepared by DSH to mark the 20th anniversary of the elections held on 4th June 1989. The brochure gives a direct and eye-catching account of the political changes taking place in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989.