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С 2004-го по 2012 год английских фотограф Джулиан Джермен побывал в 20 странах мира и сделал там фото 450 школьных классов вместе с учениками. Эти фотографии хорошо иллюстрируют государства, где учатся эти дети.

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I mean, your cats will still destroy the roll, but it might require a little more effort... or something.

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Wes Anderson's love of inserting fake books in his films is well-documented (and arguably unparalleled).  We recently wrote about the books in Anderson's latest film, Moonrise Kingdom.  But that wasn't the first Anderson piece featuring made-up books.  Quite a few also appeared in the 2001 hit The Royal Tenenbaums, about a dysfunctional family of depressed early geniuses, languishing in Manhattan.  The film was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection (who, like Anderson, are much loved for their careful attention to detail).  Criterion has now released a gallery of images depicting the covers for the various fake books seen throughout The Royal Tenebaums.



What I find so striking about Anderson's fake books is the way that they perfectly encapsulate that particular breed of mid to late 20th c. paperbacks found so often in secondhand bookshops. The fonts, color schemes, and graphic design of the covers are all spot-on.  Furthermore, the books display just the right amount of wear for mass printed paperbacks from that era.

Here are a few of the books from The Royal Tenenbaums, borrowed here from the Criterion gallery. (Check out their gallery for more of these great images):

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WHOOPS WHOOPS I just moved to Australia and I’m dressed in a gorilla suit and a skirt so that I can come by and claim I’m this little guy’s mom WHOOPS!

A long time ago in a sewing room far, far away.

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Sure, this thing looks pretty awesome, and if *I* were a cat, this would look a lot like heaven to me. Then again, you know cats: buy them an expensive designer couch, and they'll choose to sleep in the box in which it was delivered.

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Photographer unknown, after a painting by Édouard de Beaumont (1821-1888) after a photograph by Charles Nègre (1820-1880), Où diable l’amour va-t-il se nicher! 1873. Albumen silver print. Graphic Arts GA2012- in process

Charles Nègre (1820-1880) The Vampire, 1853 (c) Musée d’Orsay Charles Meryon (1821-1868), Le Stryge, 1853. (c) Cleveland Museum of Art Joseph Pennell, Le Stryge, 1893.
(c) Art Institute of Chicago Edward Frascino, “Come on Harve. Do your Quasimodo for us!” 15 July 1972. (c) The New Yorker

In 1844, Édouard de Beaumont (1821-1888) was one of several artists asked to illustrate a new edition of the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (1802-1885). First published in 1831, the book was an enormous success and the 1844 edition was to be a sumptuous new printing with two dozen new engravings.

The popularity of Hugo’s book not only resulted in multiple editions in many languages but also in the restoration of the Cathedral of Notre Dame itself. Beginning in 1845 and lasting for twenty-five years, the controversial rebuilding included the addition of the gargoyles on the Galerie des Chimères.

Many visual artists were inspired to create images of the structure, using in particular the gargoyles as romantic icons. Charles Nègre (1820-1880) and Henri Le Secq (1818-1882) playfully photographed each other on the north tower in 1853 and Nègre’s image remains a favorite in museum collections around the world. Views of “The Vampire” looking out over the city of Paris turned up everywhere, including an etching by Charles Meryon and later, a painting by Winslow Homer.

Twenty years after Nègre made his photograph, Beaumont was inspired to revisit the theme in a painting he called “Où diable l’amour va-t-il se nicher!” Historians have translated this enigmatic title several ways, offering “Where the devil will love nest,” “Where will Devil Love nest,” or “Where the hell is love going to nest!” among other variations. Rather than drag his easel up all those stairs, Beaumont simply copied the major portion of the photograph exactly, substituting only the portrait Le Secq for a couple in love (the woman in a startlingly green dress).

Beaumont’s painting was not only accepted into the Salon of 1873 but won second prize. An engraving of the painting was made by Léon Gaucherel and the French firm Goupil et Cie. had both an albumen photograph and a woodburytype created. They first sold them as part of their series Galerie photographique and then, published the woodburytype in their sumptuous journal Galerie contemporaine littéraire, artistique (v. 8, 1884) along with a portrait of the artist and several other paintings.

For more variations on the Vampire theme, see the wonderful study by Michael Camille, Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Marquand SA NA3549.P2 C36 2009

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Désiré Magloire Bourneville (1840-1909) and Paul Regnard (1850-1927), Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. Service de M. Charcot (Paris: Adrien Delahaye & Co., 1876-1877, 1878). Graphic Arts Collection GAX 2012- in process

As a young professional Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) served his internship at Salpêtrière, a women’s hospital in Paris used as more of “a warehouse for female outcasts: women who were mad, violent, crippled, chronically ill, mentally retarded, unmarried and pregnant, or simply old and poor.” Charcot called it “that grand asylum of human misery.” [Medical Muses, 2011]

In 1862, Charcot returned to Salpêtrière as chief physician of medical services and transformed it. During his tenure, the hospital grew to house more than 5,000 patients in 100 buildings; the largest institution of its kind in Europe. It had its own farm, bakery, and by 1878, a well-equipped photography studio. (Bellevue Hospital in New York City also had a full photography department.)

Asti Hustvedt writes, “Charcot … brought hysteria, hitherto marginal, into the mainstream. He legitimized the disease by defining it as an inherited neurological disorder, not madness or malingering.” Martin Kemp noted that the doctor’s work was “an unrivaled attempt to create what may be called ‘visual psychology’ —in which imagery and environments played a central role in diagnosis, recording, clinical suggestion, treatment and the design of the patients’ surroundings.”

Charcot was deeply influenced by his predecessor at Salpêtrière, Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne who published his treatise Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine in 1862. Six years earlier, Duchenne had begun photographing his patients, thanks to the help of Adrien Tournachon (Nadar’s brother), as a form of “orthography of the physiognomy in motion.” Charcot began to do the same.

In 1875, he selected as an intern a young psychiatry student named Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, who was also a journalist. Bourneville wrote extensively for medical journals and eventually, published two of his own. Under Charcot, he learned to keep extensive medical histories on the patients, many of which were later published in Iconographie. It is thanks to Bourneville that Charcot’s many accomplishments became known both in his own time and today.

Another intern, Paul Regnard, was hired, in part, for his ability to make photographs. Charcot hoped these would provide visual evidence to support his conviction that hysteria was a real organic disease with particular symptoms. In 1882, photographer Albert Londe (1858-1917) was hired as a chemistry assistant and before long, took over the running of the photography laboratory. Londe published his own study in 1893 entitled La photographie médicale: application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques, dedicated to Charcot.

“The photographs in the Iconographie haunt its pages,” writes Hustvedt, “[they are] the ghosts of women who refuse to be reduced to medical illustrations.”

See also:
Asti Hustvedt, Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011). Firestone RC339.52.C453 H87 2011

Ann Thomas, Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1997). Marquand Library (SAPH): TR692 .T466 1997

Существует расхожее мнение, что в позднем СССР был дефицит еды. Однако история не зафиксировала голода и голодных смертей в то время. Проблема же была в лени или нерасторопности граждан. Те, кто хотел трудиться, имели еды вдоволь. На одном примере закарпатского труженика можно увидеть, как его семья в 1984 г. создавала достаток.

The local institution, thought by many to be New York's best bagel purveyor, will open this fall.

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The art of paper marbling is not lost to Jemma Lewis, a young professional marbler based in rural Wiltshire, UK. Her small family business (her father assists) opened in April of 2009, after she spent eight months in specialized training following a seven-year apprenticeship at local bookbinders, Chivers-Period. Previously Lewis had studied textiles, but at Chivers, she said, "I became interested in antique books and the beautiful marbled papers that bookbinders used as endpapers."

Lewis provides her wares to bookbinders, publishers, artists, interior designers, fashion designers, and furniture restorers. Her website showcases more than fifty hand-marbled papers in traditional designs, such as the one seen below. She also offers bespoke designs for specific projects and a matching service in which she reproduces historic designs for repair work.

Her specialty "one-off" art marbled papers, like the one seen here called "Meadow," are amazing. They can be used for bookbinding, of course, or they can be framed as is. She has a Flickr page showing some of her other designs.

All images courtesy of Jemma Lewis Marbling & Design. 

У настоящего гаджетомана всегда в кармане парочка любимых или самых нужных девайсов. И даже когда он отправляется в дальнюю поездку перебороть одержимость практически невозможно. С собой берется всё. И это «всё» ему реально необходимо. Меня не раз удивляли коллеги своим «сумочным разнообразием», но Стив Возняк, решивший показать миру содержимое дорожного рюкзака, сразил окончательно. Кликабельно 23-килограммовый [...]

Dolly Parton and Keith Haring

Ooh, j'adore! Les chats d'art sont vraiment magnifique! (That is to say, cat art is magnificent. Also pretty. One might even call this painting mewtiful!)

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This widdle piggy went to the Daily Squee, and this widdle piggy stayed home. This widdle piggy had all the spots, and this widdle piggy had none. And THIS widdle piggy made me “SQUEE!!!” all the way home.

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Tom Waits, David Bowie and Bette Midler

Don’t mind sharing dinner with the local raccoons but what the hell is THAT?!

Wutebber he is he’s hogging all ob mai food.

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Вернувшись из поездки, я застала в своей кровати спящего вампира. Вдобавок ко всему это чудовище постелило себе моё розовое белье. Я благодарна Деве Сапопанской, поскольку я так разозлилась, что уже ничего не боялась. Схватив со стены распятье, я приблизилась к вампиру, после чего он в ужасе бежал и никогда больше не возвращался.

That moment you realize that being a mommy means no more sleeping in late on the weekends…

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