The Circus. 1870s–1950s

US$ 70

The authors

Linda Granfield is a widely published author whose book Circus: An Album won six awards, including a place on the “Best of the Best” list by Chicago Public Library. Known for her clear and accessible writing, Granfield has penned many young adult publications as well as adult nonfiction books. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

San Francisco-based circus historian Dominique Jando has written five books on the circus, was associate artistic director of New York’s Big Apple Circus 1983–2002, and director of the San Francisco School of Circus Arts 2003–04. He is also cofounder of Paris’s world-famous circus arts competition, the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain.

The contributing author

Fred Dahlinger, Jr. from Baraboo, Wisconsin, is a circus historian and author of several books on the American circus.

The editor

Noel Daniel is a graduate of Princeton University and a former Fulbright Scholar to Berlin. She earned an MA in London and was director of a photography gallery before editing books. Her TASCHEN publications include East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Wintertime Tales, Magic, and The Circus.

Product details

“A striking visual record… it portrays energy, scale and drama.”

— The Lady, London
"A gee-whiz spectacle of a book, a three-ring extravaganza as bright as a pinball machine."

— The New York Times Book Review, New York

Robert Crumb

“I like the Circus book because it has lots of nice big lurid photos, the whole grotesque bizarreness of circuses. I went to one of these as a kid. It was an overpowering experience, and the book captures all of that. Oh, and there are great reproductions of colorful old circus posters.”