tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270456112024-03-13T21:48:32.838+01:00Rare AutumnRare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.comBlogger1213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-70513558253698111402016-02-25T10:44:00.000+01:002016-02-25T10:44:01.037+01:00Please see side bars for artist books/book art resources<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Please see side bars for artist books/book art resources, twitter.com/rareautumn for current, or rareautumn.com for works - this page is on extended hiatus...</span></span></span>Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-51579836023655499912015-06-19T11:14:00.000+02:002015-06-19T11:14:39.786+02:00Glad midsommar!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">'Fairy of Midsummer' by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Beskow" target="_blank">Elsa Beskow (1874-1953)</a> from <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/" target="_blank">pinterest</a>.</span></div>
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Glad midsommar! (Happy Midsummer!). <br />
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modern Sweden, Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day (Midsommarafton
and Midsommardagen) [...] is arguably the most important holiday of
the year, and one of the most uniquely Swedish in the way it is
celebrated, even if it has been influenced by other countries long
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The main celebrations take place on the Friday, and the
traditional events include raising and dancing around a huge maypole.
One typical dance is the frog dance. Before the maypole is raised,
greens and flowers are collected and used to cover the entire pole.<br />
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Raising
and dancing around a maypole (majstång or midsommarstång) is an
activity that attracts families and many others. People dancing around
the pole listen to traditional music and many wear traditional folk
costumes. The year's first potatoes, pickled herring, sour cream, and
possibly the first strawberries of the season are on the menu.
Drinking songs are also important at this feast, and many drink
heavily.<br />
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Because Midsummer was thought to be one of the times
of the year when magic was strongest, it was considered a good night
to perform rituals to look into the future. Traditionally, young
people pick bouquets of seven or nine different flowers and put them
under their pillow in the hope of dreaming about their future spouse.
In the past it was believed that herbs picked at Midsummer were
highly potent, and water from springs could bring good health.
Greenery placed over houses and barns were supposed to bring good
fortune and health to people and livestock; this old tradition of
decorating with greens continues, even though most don't take it
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See my contribution - snow - <a href="http://rareautumn.com/post/114575204892/snow-my-contribution-to-world-book-night-2015" target="_blank">here</a> (and in the film). Project info <a href="http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsdata.htm" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/shine-on.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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A film of miniature models made in response to Stephen King’s book, The Shining. Filmed for World Book Night, 2015.</div>
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Model Makers: Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck, Craig Atkinson, Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler, Si Butler, Nancy Campbell, Anna Cooper, Jeremy Dixon, Lilla Duignan, Sara Elgerot/Rare Autumn, Su Fahy, Hazel Grainger, Charlotte Hall, Paul Laidler, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Gwen Simpson, Simon Smith, Tom Sowden, Angela Thames, Elisabeth Tonnard, Stephanie Turnbull, Corinne Welch, Linda Williams, Philippa Wood, Clare Wyatt.</div>
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Set build: Si Butler</div>
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Background: Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler</div>
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Set assemblers: Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler, Lilla Duignan, Tom Sowden</div>
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Filming: Tom Sowden</div>
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Photography for book: Paul Laidler [book to come]</div>
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Vila i frid. Rest in peace. <br />
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"<a href="https://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy/status/569762773204217857" target="_blank">A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP</a>"Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-28973564473203827992014-12-31T12:30:00.000+01:002014-12-31T12:31:05.580+01:00Happy New 2015!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy New 2015!<br />
May it be a year of stillness, peace and dreams fulfilled.Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-64653710377648906082014-12-24T08:54:00.000+01:002014-12-24T08:54:00.400+01:00God Jul, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-41600722807802894772014-12-13T11:46:00.000+01:002014-12-13T11:47:32.575+01:00Hello Lucia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.torchpress.net/2014/06/20/book-daren-almond-the-civil-dawns/" target="_blank">The Civil Dawns</a>. By Darren Almond. Designed by Yoshihisa Tanaka. Torch Press, 2014. 84 pp., illustrated throughout, 21x29,7cm. With English & Japanese text. Edition of 500 copies. Images from <a href="http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=ZF943&i=9784907562014&i2=" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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Book <a href="http://www.torchpress.net/2014/06/20/book-daren-almond-the-civil-dawns/" target="_blank">description</a>:<br />
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"British artist <a href="http://whitecube.com/artists/darren_almond/" target="_blank">Darren Almond</a> has been known for his works using variety of media, including sculpture, films as well as photography.<br />
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This 'The Civil Dawns' consists of 2 photographic series.<br />
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'Civil Dawn@Giverny' is a series of photographs taken in the Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny in the winter and summer, while 'Civil Dawn@Mt. Hiei' photographed foggy Mt. Hiei. Images of both series are captured by exposing to the momentary light of the break of dawn.<br />
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Releasing its brilliance, 'Civil Dawn@Giverny' depicts momentary, spontaneous faces of flowers in Monet’s garden at the very moment a day breaks. Those pictures, photographed with large-format Polaroid, which apparatus is discontinued already, seem like homage to the Impressionist.<br />
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'Civil Dawn@Mt. Hiei' is a series produced in Japan, where Almond has taken particular interests in its culture and drawn his inspiration to works. He has visited Japan several times since 1990s and created numbers of works adopting the ideas he got through sceneries seen and incidents encountered during his visits.<br />
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The morning twilight Almond pictured charms us with its gentle lights, recalls our nostalgia, although no humans are appeared in the pictures. Time is unchanging and eternal - while his masterwork, installation of timepieces, symbolically implies accurate passage of time, Almond contrarily sheds light on the twinkling of momentariliness in these series." Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-91829742973371304332014-08-13T11:06:00.002+02:002014-08-13T13:49:45.642+02:00Rest in Peace Lauren Bacall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Saddened by the news of the passing of Lauren Bacall - a seven decade (!) acting veteran, film noir legend - and an absolute favourite screen-presence of my mine. Rest in Peace.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/lauren-bacall-dead-hollywood-legend-dies-aged-89-9665188.html" target="_blank">more</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/13/lauren-bacall-obituary" target="_blank">more</a>, <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/2014/08/lauren-bacall-dies-age-89" target="_blank">more</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28767401" target="_blank">more</a>)</span>Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-28578490443979422262014-08-12T23:27:00.000+02:002014-08-13T10:30:47.383+02:00Rest in Peace Robin Williams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Robin Williams 1951-2014 - Rest in Peace.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/11/robin-williams-found-dead-suicide" target="_blank">more</a>, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/11/showbiz/robin-williams-dead/index.html" target="_blank">more</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28749702" target="_blank">more</a>, <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/remembering-robin-williams/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=nytimesarts&_r=0" target="_blank">more</a>)</span>Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-72824484479404322492014-08-06T22:07:00.000+02:002014-08-08T00:53:20.122+02:00#NoMoreHiroshima (Orizuru Paper Crane for Hiroshima Day)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">My Orizuru Paper Crane for Hiroshima - May there be Peace.</span></div>
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"Orizuru - the paper crane - is the symbol of peace.<br />
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Do it on August 6th in dedication to the Victims of the Bomb, repeating to yourself and to the world NO MORE HIROSHIMA as you do it.<br />
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Then the folding of the paper crane, you will realize will become a meditation you share with the world.<br />
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You can bury the orizuru you made in your back yard, hang it in your room, keep it inside a book you love to read, or send it to a friend."<br />
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- Yoko Ono (<a href="http://imaginepeace.com/archives/20590" target="_blank">link</a>)</div>
Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-17758532892855391972014-07-02T15:39:00.000+02:002014-07-02T15:39:52.893+02:00Places, Strange and Quiet.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.hatjecantz.de/wim-wenders-2931-1.html" target="_blank">Places, Strange and Quiet</a>.
By Wim Wenders.
Hatje Cantz, 2011. 124 pp., illustrated throughout, 17,1x20,5cm. Images from <a href="http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=DQ791&i=9783775731485&i2=" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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Book <a href="http://www.hatjecantz.de/wim-wenders-2931-1.html" target="_blank">description</a>:<br />
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'You only find what you’re looking for'.<br />
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" 'When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. … I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange'.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wim-wenders.com/" target="_blank">Wim Wenders</a> - painter, actor, writer, and one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers around - has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken from 1983 to 2011 in countries all over the world.<br />
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From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, this book presents the full range of Wenders’s photography." Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-3313920458049842722014-06-20T10:04:00.001+02:002014-06-20T11:25:47.293+02:00Glad midsommar!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Midsummer images from <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/songbirdcottage/midsummer-eve/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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Glad midsommar! (Happy Midsummer!). <br />
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"In
modern Sweden, Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day (Midsommarafton
and Midsommardagen) [...] is arguably the most important holiday of
the year, and one of the most uniquely Swedish in the way it is
celebrated, even if it has been influenced by other countries long
ago.<br />
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The main celebrations take place on the Friday, and the
traditional events include raising and dancing around a huge maypole.
One typical dance is the frog dance. Before the maypole is raised,
greens and flowers are collected and used to cover the entire pole.<br />
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Raising
and dancing around a maypole (majstång or midsommarstång) is an
activity that attracts families and many others. People dancing around
the pole listen to traditional music and many wear traditional folk
costumes. The year's first potatoes, pickled herring, sour cream, and
possibly the first strawberries of the season are on the menu.
Drinking songs are also important at this feast, and many drink
heavily.<br />
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Because Midsummer was thought to be one of the times
of the year when magic was strongest, it was considered a good night
to perform rituals to look into the future. Traditionally, young
people pick bouquets of seven or nine different flowers and put them
under their pillow in the hope of dreaming about their future spouse.
In the past it was believed that herbs picked at Midsummer were
highly potent, and water from springs could bring good health.
Greenery placed over houses and barns were supposed to bring good
fortune and health to people and livestock; this old tradition of
decorating with greens continues, even though most don't take it
seriously."<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">To learn more about the Swedish Midsummer traditions continue reading <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/Traditions/Celebrating-the-Swedish-way/Midsummer/" target="_blank">here</a> for example. </span>Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-49731847959230994552014-06-08T11:37:00.000+02:002014-06-08T11:37:03.812+02:00Leap Toward Yourself.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.steidl.de/flycms/en/Books/Leap-Toward-Yourself/0621263657.html" target="_blank">Leap Toward Yourself</a>. By Sharon Ya'ari. Steidl and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2013. 264 pp., illustrated throughout, 8,5x10,5".</span></div>
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Book <a href="http://www.steidl.de/flycms/en/Books/Leap-Toward-Yourself/0621263657.html" target="_blank">description</a>:<br />
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" 'I like being able to observe something over a long period of time, unselfconsciously admiring the complex circumstances by which it had come into being.<br />
The images have a story, usually one related to existence and near-extinction'.<br />
- Sharon Ya’ari.<br />
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This book presents photographs spanning <a href="http://sharonyaari.com/" target="_blank">Sharon Ya’ari</a>’s entire creative career, focusing on his recent works. It is published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Ya’ari’s work at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, featuring a comprehensive selection of his photographs.<br />
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Sharon Ya’ari does not seek unusual moments, special places or unique subjects. His photographs offer an intimate look at the commonplace and familiar, making the viewer take pause and observe closely. He does not depict climactic moments; rather, he stops and photographs things that appear to him along the way, thereby conferring permanence on a particular time and place.<br />
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Ya’ari’s images summon a multilayered reading, combining local, historical references on the one hand and conceptual references to the medium of photography and to the history of art on the other." <br />
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Published to coincide with the 2013-2014 <a href="http://www.tamuseum.org.il/about-the-exhibition/sharon-yaari" target="_blank">Tel Aviv Museum of Art Exhibition 'Sharon Ya’ari: Leap Toward Yourself'</a>.Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-24633588847051822482014-05-29T10:27:00.000+02:002014-05-29T10:28:47.214+02:00"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Maya Angelou (<a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/dr.-maya-angelou" target="_blank">source for image</a>).</span></div>
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Rest in peace Maya Angelou. You've done so much for all of us, you will be missed.<br />
<a href="http://mayaangelou.com/" target="_blank">More</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/28/maya-angelou-in-fifteen-quotes" target="_blank">more</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/maya-angelou-lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html?_r=0" target="_blank">more</a>, <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/maya-angelou" target="_blank">more</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Syrener (syringas).</span></div>
Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-66164998647053415092014-05-20T10:56:00.001+02:002014-05-20T11:01:49.490+02:00Space Conquerers!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.amcbooks.com/amc2-journal-issue-6" target="_blank">Space Conquerers! Amc2 Journal Issue 6</a>. Edited by AMC, Cristina de Middel and Thomas Mailaender. AMC Books, 2013. 32 pp., illustrated throughout, 30x37cm. Images from <a href="http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=ZF602&i=&i2=" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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Book <a href="http://www.amcbooks.com/amc2-journal-issue-6" target="_blank">description</a>:<br />
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"The first Earth-born creature to enter space was Laika, a stray dog from Moscow that blasted off aboard Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957, heralding the beginning of the space race and an associated propaganda war between the two superpowers of the era, the Soviet Union and the United States.<br />
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Edited by the Archive of Modern Conflict together with <a href="http://www.lademiddel.com/" target="_blank">Christina de Middel</a> and <a href="http://www.thomasmailaender.com/" target="_blank">Thomas Mailander</a>, this issue of Amc2 journal contains a cross-section of some of the space-race related images held by the Archive."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I've previously also featured <a href="http://rareautumn.blogspot.se/2012/06/amc2-journal-issue-1.html" target="_blank">issue 1</a> of Amc2 journal. </span>Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-26459702501596712332014-05-18T12:18:00.000+02:002014-05-18T12:18:19.406+02:00Birds Have Wings.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.nazraeli.com/bookdetail.php?book_id=100459" target="_blank">Birds Have Wings</a>.
One Picture Book #77. By Carol E. Richards.
Nazraeli Press, 2013. 16 pp., illustrated throughout, 5,5x7,25". With one original print. Images from <a href="http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=TR401&i=9781590053775&i2=" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>
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<a href="http://www.nazraeli.com/onepicture.php" target="_blank">One Picture Book</a> is an ongoing series of limited edition artists' books published by Nazraeli Press, which I've previously written about <a href="http://rareautumn.blogspot.se/2010/07/twenty-one-red-crowned-cranes-and-one.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://rareautumn.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-clouds.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://rareautumn.blogspot.com/2010/04/type-55.html" target="_blank">here</a> for example.<br />
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The
artist is asked to create a book based on one image or series of
connected images, from their previous work. The hardcover edition is
limited to 500 and contains an original print by the artist.<br />
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Book <a href="http://www.nazraeli.com/bookdetail.php?book_id=100459" target="_blank">description</a>:<br />
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"Having difficulty identifying a particular species of bird through her spotting scope, <a href="http://carolrichards.com/" target="_blank">Carol E. Richards</a> took a photograph through the lens to assist with her research.<br />
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The resulting picture turned out to be far more than a tool for verification. It had a mood and visual content the artist was drawn to, and led to the creation of a series of beautiful, dream-like vignettes." Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-13584245867609471222014-05-15T09:32:00.000+02:002014-05-15T09:40:13.396+02:00Rest in Peace Malik Bendjelloul<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Best of Malik - special on SVT Kobra (culture program) - view <a href="http://www.svtplay.se/video/2042748/avsnitt-10-malik-ben%3Ciframe%20src=%27" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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Maybe it's growing up with him on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098785/" target="_blank">Ebba & Didrik</a>, maybe it's truly loving the work he did on <a href="http://www.svt.se/kobra/" target="_blank">the culture show Kobra</a>, maybe it's the honesty that came across during the award circus for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/" target="_blank">Searching for Sugar Man</a>, I'm not really sure, what I do know is that I've been really affected by the death of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070594/" target="_blank">Malik Bendjelloul</a>.<br />
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It does indeed feel like a bright and truthful light has gone too soon. Rest in peace.<br />
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Searching for Sugar Man will show as a tribute at <a href="http://www.svt.se/kultur/film/searching-for-sugar-man-visas-i-cannes" target="_blank">Cannes Film Festival on Sunday</a>. SVT (Swedish State TV) will also show the film on Sunday, <a href="http://www.svt.se/tv-tabla/2014-05-18/" target="_blank">at 12.55</a>.<br />
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Kobra showed a tribute last night (link above and <a href="http://www.svtplay.se/video/2042748/avsnitt-10-malik-bendjelloul" target="_blank">here</a>).Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-12127352690043605582014-05-05T17:38:00.000+02:002014-05-05T17:41:07.082+02:00Iris Apfel dresses for Matisse<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Iris Apfel dresses for Matisse - in collaboration with Tate Modern.</span></div>
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It would be impossible to not love <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Apfel" target="_blank">Iris Apfel</a>!<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">May Day demonstrations in Stockholm (1950, 1940s, 1944). Images from <a href="http://www.stockholmskallan.se/" target="_blank">Stockholmskällan</a>.</span></div>
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For peace and unity between people (för fred och samarbete mellan folken).Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-1407684508802556252014-04-27T09:52:00.004+02:002014-04-27T09:52:50.076+02:00Wilderness.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000005262&Page=book" target="_blank">Wilderness</a>. By Debra Bloomfield, text by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Tempest_Williams" target="_blank">Terry Tempest Williams</a>. University Of New Mexico Press, 2014. 128 pp., illustrated throughout, 10,3x12,3". With two maps and an audio CD. Images from <a href="http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=NM212&i=9780826354297&i2=" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>
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Book <a href="http://unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000005262&Page=book" target="_blank">description</a>:<br />
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"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Bloomfield" target="_blank">Debra Bloomfield</a> engaged for five years on a photographic project in the wilderness.<br />
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After photographing the desert in 'Four Corners' and the ocean in <a href="http://rareautumn.blogspot.se/2013/08/still.html" target="_blank">Still</a>, she has moved on in this new book to the forest.<br />
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Her photographs do not describe a particular place. She does not catalog the elements that add up to wilderness. She does not show each detail she observed or convey all the information she learned while she was there.<br />
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Instead, her photographs and soundscapes bring us to the experience of wilderness.
A CD is an integral part of this book, allowing the reader to share the photographer’s journey of hearing the call of birds overhead, the crunch of snow underfoot, and the hum of a ferry’s engine."Rare Autumnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01339805904207733215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27045611.post-23736193662510789992014-04-19T09:26:00.000+02:002014-04-19T09:26:00.246+02:00Happy Easter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Vintage Easter cards via <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=vintage%20easter&rs=ac&len=14" target="_blank">pinterest</a>.</span></div>
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Glad påsk and Happy Easter!</div>
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