Author(s) | Maria Svarbova

Publisher | New Heroes & Pioneers, 2017

Language(s) | English

Hardcover | 108 pages

ISBN-13 | 978-9187815157

Product Dimensions | 22.86 x 22.86 cm

Photography | Creatives duMonde

Ten cities and ten public swimming pools in Slovakia, all but one built in the Socialist Era, excavated and recast. In her homage to childhood happiness, love of family and country, Maria Svarbova simultaneously pays reverence to time (past/present/future), and the (public) purpose-built environment. With precision and unyielding beauty redolent of the future, yet somehow calming and familiar, Svarbova renders photographs that could be mistaken for paintings – perennially distinctive in tone, texture, composition and socio-historical reference.

This 2017 edition, Swimming Pool, is out of print. A more recent and comprehensive edition, Swimming Pools (2023), may be available for purchase.

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