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A Glossy Photo Book Captures a Beautiful But Sanitized Detroit
Michel Arnaud’s book makes a fine addition to any Detroit-lover’s library, but it takes away the elements that make the city real, vital, and colorful.
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Photographs of Life at Two Edges of the North American Plate
For her book Rift/Fault, Marion Belanger investigated landscapes along the San Andreas Fault in California and the Mid-Atlantic Rift in Iceland.
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The Rainbow of Japan’s LGBTQ Identity, Captured in Photos
Queer people in Japan are in the spotlight in the latest installment of a book series that documents LGBTQ lives around the world.
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Paging Through Chris Marker’s Studio, a Spatial Representation of His Mind
A new book takes readers into the workspace of the venerated filmmaker.
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An Illustrated Portrait of Lolita Fashion
Jane Mai and An Nguyen's So Pretty/Very Rotten attempts to give a broader sociological context to this subculture that quietly began in the Tokyo district of Harajuku in the 1970s.
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Mind Music: Reading Clark Coolidge
Jack Kerouac’s writing opened up the literary horizons for Coolidge — horizons where a musician’s intuition and technique could be expressed in writing and thinking.
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The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction
Pulp cover artists recognized the American appetite for lurid and violent imagery, and the Wolfsonian is exploring the social issues embedded in their illustrations in a new exhibition.
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What Can We Learn from Dystopian Fiction About Climate Change?
If you haven’t heard of cli-fi yet, you are not alone; however, you have probably either read or watched some already.
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The Idiosyncratic Writings of Leonora Carrington, a Reluctant Surrealist
Three books by Leonora Carrington, including her memoir of her time at an insane asylum, reveal the artist's specific vision of the world, which strayed from and defied Surrealism.
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A Photographer Remixes Her Family Photos into Cryptic New Moments
For her new book ObjectImage, Sarah Tulloch has cut and collaged a collection of black-and-white photographs she inherited from her grandfather.
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Looking for Traces of Lenin in Ukraine
The former Soviet republic, which used to have the most Lenin statutes per capita, has dealt with its old communist monuments in a myriad of ways.
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Photographs Document Arctic Change on Our Frozen Seas
Pictures like Diane Tuft's and Stefan Hunstein's eventually may be all that remains to remind us of the Arctic’s terrible beauty.