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July 18th 2012

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WILLIAM EGGLESTON: THE DEMOCRATIC FOREST

The mood is of a wandering senseless doom;  lit by a bight midday sun it is color photography’s high noon american gothic noir. Introduction by Eudora Welty.

ISBN 0385266510

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July 17th 2012

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Apart from all the fascinating things which can be said about Carl Sagan, the Voyager Golden Records is worth mentioning. These phonograph records launched on the Voyager in 1977 include sights and sounds from Earth and are intended for alien ears only…

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Apart from all the fascinating things which can be said about Carl Sagan, the Voyager Golden Records is worth mentioning. These phonograph records launched on the Voyager in 1977 include sights and sounds from Earth and are intended for alien ears only…

July 10th 2012

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Here’s another photo by Sandra Coppertop which features a photo collection from Jim Goldberg portraying the affluent and impoverished, seemingly isolated and alienated, and in their own homes. These photos are accompanied by comments like the one shown on the cover as written by the subjects themselves. Wikipedia describes Jim Goldberg as having studied Theology, and “ending up in photography when a schizophrenic Photo 1 teacher told him he had talent.” That’s not a bad deal.

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Here’s another photo by Sandra Coppertop which features a photo collection from Jim Goldberg portraying the affluent and impoverished, seemingly isolated and alienated, and in their own homes. These photos are accompanied by comments like the one shown on the cover as written by the subjects themselves. Wikipedia describes Jim Goldberg as having studied Theology, and “ending up in photography when a schizophrenic Photo 1 teacher told him he had talent.” That’s not a bad deal.

July 10th 2012

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Photographs by Lissy Elle Laricchia

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July 9th 2012

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A CARTOON HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Delightfully wry take on the history of architecture from Caveman to Modernism. The postwar drawings and captions are best; styles proliferate from Coca-ColoniaL to Pop Nouveau to By-Pass Variegated.

ISBN 0876450923

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