Posts Tagged ‘printed matter’
Candid Camera: Photographer Captures Reading Habits of NYC Subway Commuters
Voyeurism is a term we use loosely here, more referring to human curiosity than anything perverse in nature. But it seems to be the best way to describe the work of Dutch documentary photographer Reinier Gerritsen in his series The Last Book. Over the course of three years, Gerritsen trolled the New York City subway…
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Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha (pronounced roo-SHAY) has a thing for books. And we’re not referring to literature itself, but actual physical books (he claims not to even be a great reader). Ruscha is not taken with the digital reading revolution as of late. He doesn’t read on an iPad or Kindle; he doesn’t…
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