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July 24, 2011
The Polish-born Czech photographer Jan Parik studied cinematography at the Art Academy of Prague. He worked as a photographer for Czech journals and won recognition when his photographs were exhibited and appeared in poetry books. From 1960 - 1964 he photographed Prague in the spirit of Franz Kafka and these images were exhibited internationally as well as published in the book "Kafka and Prague" in 1965.
Jan Parik, street, Prague, 1960
The adjective “Kafkaesque” has a universal currency. We use it when we feel that the whole world is putting us on trial and that no one will tell us the charge. We use it we bureaucracy buries us alive. The quarter in which Kafka lived was one of towers, domes and steeples. Its streets were cobbled crevices : a world of dark corners, secret alleys, shuttered windows, squalid courtyards, rowdy pubs and sinister inns.
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