Red-Hot, Filthy Library Smut
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This is a wonderful collection of library images coming out of the work of Candida Höfer. The book titled “Libraries” is in the studio and I would suggest opening it up again.
The titillating title and brief description comes from thenonist.com, what appears to be a series of pores that open up to some fascinating subjects.
Now, coming upon this post as you are, unawares, I feel I ought to clarify the title (which was alternately going to be sex libris) straight away by telling you what this post is not, in fact, about. By “library smut” I am in no way referring to the photo books on native peoples, or the illustrated health manuals, or any of the other volumes which, in your childhood, you lurked about the library aisle to find with the sole purpose of sneaking guilty glances at naked bodies. Nor am I referring to the “risqué” novels by Miller, Cleland, Réage, or Lawrence you leafed impatiently through as a teenager. No. What I’m talking about here is the full-frontal objectification of the library itself. Oh yeah.
Yesterday I came across a truly gorgeous book of photographs by Candida Höfer titled, Libraries, a title which pretty much says it all, because that is just exactly what it is, one rich, sumptuous, photo of a library interior after another. It’s like porn for book nerds. Seriously. They are gorgeous photos, nearly all without visitors and just begging to be entered. (ha. sorry.) see and read more thenonist.com
REAL GABINETE PORTUGUES DE LEITURA RIO DE JANEIRO
RIJKMUSEUM AMSTERDAM
BIBLIOTECA DE LA REAL ACADEMIA DE LA LENGUA MADRID
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