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Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2011

In Paris, Books & Beasts


 Over the years I have found many shops that I adore in Paris.
I collect rare books and works of art on paper, so many
of my favorite shops are book shops, and  
one of my favorite book shops is 


Perhaps I am prejudiced  because I have found several copies of the French edition of my fist book Tiffany et les joailliers americins there.   They sell beautiful contemporary art, style, and design books. They have a very fine rare book department.
Below are a few selections from their current  catalog.

 catalog cover
18 magnificent watercolors, ballet costumes circa 1750
bound in a leather volume
Jazz by Henri Matisse, 1947 in a decorative binding (reliure) by  Renee Haas.
From a limited edition of 250, signed by the artist.
 They also have a gallery.The current exhibition is a delight. 
Sisters Nicole Jacobs and Aude Goalec have created a Papier-mâché menagerie full of poetry and humor.
Working over wire mesh armatures with paper and glue from weekly's, daily's and magazines. They play off of the words, forms, and the connotations of the actual medium.



Ane

Oie


Contact Thierry Meaudre at chez Lardanchet  Here

Friday, March 11, 2011

Duck, 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea

 Duck
We found this duck in the Medici Fountain at the Luxembourg garden in Paris
But   28,800 toy ducks were lost at sea

Illustration by Mark Pernice
for the New York Times
Are the subject of a new Book
MOBY-DUCK

The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

By Donovan Hohn

402 pp. Viking. $27.95.

The same event inspired this book a number of years ago

A wonderful book review in the New York Times brought this book to my attention. Plastic pollution at sea is not cute even if the ducks are. This film is great it is narrated by Jeramey Irons.

 

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

March 8 Journee de la Femme


Spring is trying to spring forth, the light is changing moods are lifting.