Photograph by Kenneth Josephson from his History of Photography series. It appeared on the cover of exposure 21:4, the quarterly journal of the Society for Photographic Education, in 1983.Josephson studied under Aaron Siskind, Harry Callaghan and Minor White and taught at Art Institute of Chicago for over 35 years before retiring in 1997. He is probably best known for his 'pictures within pictures' . The Art Institute had a retrospective of his work in late 1999.There is also a nice set of book imagery in Josephson's later series titled Chicago (88-4-246), 1988-2003.
da Vinci’s Notebooks Digitized: For Some Eyes Only
For the first time in 500 years the text of both of Leonardo's notebooks are available to be viewed side by side. This "electronic reunification" as the Chief Executive of the British Library Lynne Brindley put it of the Codex Leicester, purchased in 1994 for $30.8 million by Bill Gates, and the Codex Arundel which is housed in the British Library, is a product of the British Library program Turning the Pages 2.0.When viewing the Notebooks with Turning the Pages 2 "people can rotate and move the notebooks on the screen, and turn on a magnifying glass to see the...
March of the Librarians: A Video Tribute to ALA Meeting in Seattle
"Didn't you wonder where your librarians disappeared to last January? Ten thousand of them were in Seattle for an American Library Association convention, and I was there to capture the bizarre congregation on video." nnicckHysterical rendition of the meeting. Good Seattle footage. An instant YouTube biblio-classic.P.S. you can insert any trade show and it works.Thanks to Jeremy from PhiloBiblos for the lead
Autistic Woman Assembles an Amazing Library
This is truly a remarkable story.Her name is Amanda Baggs and her blog is Ballastexistenz. She describes herself as "a non-speaking physically disabled and autistic woman who’s lived in institutions, whose income comes from a disability check, and whose services are funded by the state."She is also a book collector. From a recent post on her blog comes this:"One of my hobbies is collecting books by autistic people. At this point, I don’t even always read them, but I love to obtain them, put them on the shelf, and keep them in order."Those words can only originate from a book...
The Scroll to the Book: The Last Technological Jump in the Book Trade
Another youTube biblio classic.This one from a Norwegian TV sketch with English subtitles.