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Join NOW!Nina Katchadourian makes curious and compelling art in a variety of different mediums, but perhaps her most interesting project—to book nerds, at least—is Sorted Books, an ongoing series of photographs of books arranged so that their titles assume the form of a poem. For example:
...moreWhat do Stephen Merritt, Hilton Als, and Tony Hawk have in common? According to Fred Benenson’s data, nothing—not even the books on their shelves. Benenson’s “girlfriend/lady partner” Thessaly La Force is one of the two minds behind My Ideal Bookshelf (the other is Jane Mount), and he used the data from that book to create graphs […]
...moreThe publishing industry is battling the Internet again. Or publishing stepped on the Internet’s foot and refuses to apologize. Or Maria Popova wanted to use more than three pictures in a post about My Ideal Bookshelf and Little, Brown said no. In any case, Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay wrote about it at HTMLGIANT: I […]
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