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wordsbydan:

7 Great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

With libraries around the world in danger of extinction, Flavorwire posted a series of great quotes about libraries from famous writers. I decided to pair them with some of the world’s most beautiful libraries. You’re welcome;

1. Trinity College Library - University of Dublin
2. University Club Library – New York City
3. Admont Abbey Library – Austria
4. Real Gabinete Português de Leitura – Rio de Janeiro
5. Suzzalo Library at the University of Washington – Seattle
6. Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
7. Canadian Library of Parliament – Ottawa

Click on the photo to see it full size. Support your local library, kids.

fer1972:

Edgar Allan Poe Tales Illustrations by Pavel Ripley (Artist on tumblr)

fer1972:

‘The ‘Specimens’ by Michael Mapes: Portraits comprised of hundreds of dissected photographs and fragments of ‘personal/biographical DNA’ (such as hair, fingernails, tears, calender dates and geographical references) contained in various forms.

cosascool:

Pop-Up Landscapes by  Andreas Johansson

flavorpill:

Gorgeous photos of people reading 

showslow:

Emilie’s polaroid collages.

vintageanchor:

Famous meals from literature…

More here.

(Source: vintageanchorbooks)

myampgoesto11:

Photography by Lissy Elle Laricchia

arreter:

In April of 2009 a family home in rural Vermont burned to the ground. Fifteen months later I walked through the charred foundation and found a family photo album and a box of snapshots that had melted into a dark mass. Locals told me that that after the fire, the family had moved away and what was left there had lain exposed to the snow, rain and heat of several seasons. The object I found was a palimpsest of otherworldly patterns and colors. Nearly all recognizable imagery (the very purpose of snapshots) had dissolved, leaving an intricate visual record of the elements, chaos and loss. 

Slowly, I separated each snapshot from the mass and spread them out across the table like artifacts from some future archeological dig. The paradox of intimacy and abstraction embedded in each 4x6 sheet begged to be decoded. In photography, the “latent image” refers to an image that has been recorded, but is not yet visible, still holding the potential for meaning. But how do we talk about an image that, once visible, has receded into it’s own materiality; the rippling, cracked emulsion of a color photograph? The production of chromogenic photographs is now in rapid decline, but for decades we have depended on this material to record, rewrite and memorialize our lives. Through one destructive, albeit common, event these familiar images have been transformed into bizarre microcosmic landscapes shaped by their own chaotic material logic. This disruption interrogates our collective dependency on a very unstable medium and suggests it’s unlikely, transformative power.

Klea McKenna

(Source: blknymph, via bookuse)

alecshao:

Maria Friberg - Still Lives, 2007

(Source: likeafieldmouse)