!!! black‑and‑white and color photogravure prints !!! Leningrad Symphony is a 1961 documentary photography book featuring the work of Czech photographer Karel Hájek with accompanying texts by Vladimír Rýpar. The volume presents a vivid visual portrait of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), capturing the city’s atmosphere, people, and urban landscape through powerful black‑and‑white and color photogravure (intaglio) prints. The rich tonal range and fine detail of the photogravure images lend the book a distinctive artistic and documentary quality. Originally published in Prague by Svět sovětů, this title reflects the mid‑20th‑century Central European approach to documentary photography and visual storytelling. This book is rarely found on the market today, making it a prized collectible among enthusiasts of fine photographic books and historical visual documentation.