A Five Book Birthday Salute to Man Ray August 27, 2014 – Posted in: Content, Of Interest: Featured Books / Reviews, Photography

Self Portrait by May Ray Atlantic Little Brown, 1963. Buy: First Edition | Penguin Classic “To create is divine, to reproduce is human” – Man Ray Today is the birthday of the seminal photographer / artist Emmanuel Radnitszky who we all know and love as Man Ray. Though born in Philadelphia Man Ray spent most of his career in Paris. He was an integral part of both the Surrealist and DADA movements. In 1999, ARTnews magazine named Ray one of the 25 most influential…

Latin America 1960-2013. Photos + Text August 2, 2014 – Posted in: Content, Exhibits, Photography

León Ferrari, from the series “Nevermore,” 1995. Inscriptions written on photocopy The latest exhibit at Museo Amparo, Latin America 1960-2013. Photos + Text, features over 400 works from 71 artists from 11 countries who “address the complexity of this plural and heterogeneous territory.” Through the prism of the relationship between the text and the photographic image, the exhibition shows the important role that this dialectic has played in Latin America. The connections between photography and…

Bringing Good Books to Life: Self-Portraits by Pierre Beteille July 15, 2014 – Posted in: Books and Art, Content, Photography

French photographer Pierre Beteille has produced a series of self portraits where, with a little digital magic, the text and the reader morph into some pretty cool imagery. From Robinson Crusoe to Charles Bukowski’s Notes of a Dirty Old Man and plenty in between enjoy this trip through Beteille’s reading life. See the rest of the portfolio at 500px ISO h/t Shelf Awareness

Bookstore Wedding Photos June 28, 2014 – Posted in: bookshops, Content, Photography

Where else would Jonathan Smalter of Yesterday’s Muse Books Shop in Webster, NY choose to get married then in his bookshop? For many of us it is as church as it gets. Jonathan and Kristen tied the knot earlier this month and have shared these wonderful photos. Congratulations! More Bookstore Wedding Photos.

Yosemite in the 1880’s June 17, 2014 – Posted in: Bookselling / Collecting, Photography

This month marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Yosemite Grant Act of 1864. The grant was one of the early seeds of our national park system. One of the pioneering photographers of the region was George Fiske who moved to Yosemite with his wife in 1879 and began shooting. On seeing Fiske’s images a young Ansel Adams campaigned to have his parents take him to Yosemite! The images featured here are part of an album of 71…

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