F is for Finding Fiction in the Forestclick to enlargeJoel Robison is a twenty-something photographer living in British Columbia. He goes by the handle Boy_Wonder on Flickr and his photostream is packed with over 1,500 images. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” - Lewis CarrollLuckily, for us, one of the objects he consistently pays homage to are books as they permeate many of his landscapes. R is for ReadingThey in turn lift him up and weigh him down. They are both larger than life and an integral part...
Earth on View at the Library of Congress
The Dhofar Difference. Arabian Sea coast in the Dhofar region, 2000For nearly 40 years we've been taken pictures of our planet from space in the name of science. "Key natural processes and human land use such as vegetation growth, deforestation, agriculture, coastal and river erosion, wildfire potential, snow accumulation, reservoir replenishment, and urbanization" are all monitored through satellite imagery.Icelandic Tiger. Stretch of Iceland's northern coast, 1999Now let's forget the science part of the equation. These images "were selected...based on their aesthetic appeal. Cloud formations, mountain ranges, islands, deltas, and glaciers seen from space take on patterns resembling abstract art with...
The Beauty of Folded Corners: "Dog Ear" by Erica Baum
For the book collector a dog-ear has a nasty bite, its presence as Kenneth Goldsmith points out in his introductory essay "even when smoothed out and returned to its upright position, scars the page forever."But for Erica Baum the dog-ear opens up new possibilities for engaging with the text. For the Dog Ear series Baum carefully dog-eared pages of mass market paperbacks and then photographed them. The diagonal line becomes not only the chosen method of saving one's place but also the jumping off point. The line begets new lines and ultimately new meaning. Published by Ugly Duckling Presse Dog...
Can I Help You?
"Bookstore" by Jon Christopher Hughes(click to enlarge)This eerily cool photograph appeared on the cover of the 1996 Spring/Summer issue of the Cincinnati Poetry Review.
In the Stacks: Private Libraries at the Museum of the City of New York
For the third installment of In the Stacks we visit the Museum of the City of New York which recently released 50,000 digital images from their outstanding collection.What is becoming increasingly clear in the early stages of this new series is that the plethora of material available at many of these digital destinations warrant more than one trip. Rather than overcrowd the initial posts Book Patrol will return, in due time, to select archives to bring you more book goodness.So, here on the the first visit to the Museum of the City of New York, we focus on the private...