The Beauty of Croatia

The Beauty of Croatia
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Hrvatska – Monografija

Tješimir Marić, rođen 1939. godine u Oklaju (Dalmatinska zagora) jedan je od onih umjetnika koji rado ostaju u sjeni svoga stvaranja. Bio bi anoniman da fotografije s njegovim potpisom na razglednicama i kalendarima već desetljećima ne pružaju radost milijunima ljudi koji se dive ljepoti njegovih kolora. Fotografijom se bavi od 1966. i to isključivo pejzažnom. U posljednje vrijeme, na žalost, sve rjeđe. S tugom, naime, primjećuje da, zbog zagađenja atmosfere i promjene klime, novonastalo sivilo uništava ljepotu pejzaža.

Iako je sa svojim klasičnim Nikonom proputovao krajolicima svijeta, od Kanade do Maroka, od Islanda do jemenske Socotre, svoju prvu monografiju posvetio je Hrvatskoj.

Željka Čorak je u uvodnoj riječi napisala: ˝…ovo je sutonska knjiga – premda je tako puna krijesa i sjaja.˝

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Tješimir Marić, born in Oklaj in 1939, seems to confirm the truth that you sometimes have to go around the world to get home. After working as a television cameraman, after impressions from picturesque New York, from the lakes of Canada and cliffs of Normandy, vistas of Paris, Moroccan villages made of mud, the volcanic formations of the Canary Islands, Icelandic geysers, the open sea of the Atlantic, exotic Yemen and unique Socotra, at last he could direct the lens of his camera to the domestic landscape. Over four decades he photographed on the whole landscapes, immortalising them first of all in highly appreciated picture postcards and calendars and now with this very worthwhile book.
In a long-ago talk with a respected expert in garden and landscape architecture, to my question what park, garden or gardens on his world tours had most fascinated him, against my expectation that he would describe some distant and exotic areas, he replied with a grin “Croatia!” Croatia, with really slight shifts of land, water or air, offers the eye and heart sights that are ever new: majestic mountains, limpid rivers, fields and vineyards, castles, burgs and intimate squares, emerald lakes and lavish cascades, lonely lighthouses, plants that bloom just here and nowhere else in the world.
An encounter with the material and intangible beauties of Croatia is like unwrapping a gift packed with love in many layers that after each layer reveals ever new surprises. This is a deed of gift written with the calligraphy of nature and history, the treasury of biological diversity, of national parks, reserves, cultural monuments and treasures many of which are placed upon the list of the greatest precious places of the world heritage.
In the service of this noble activity, this book of photographs was created over a long period of years.
Vlasta Kulier

Autor Tješimir Marić
Broj stranica 192
Uvez Tvrdi uvez
Naziv knjige The Beauty of Croatia
Biblioteka Posebna izdanja