Physical, paper books are far from being a thing of the past, yet they are quickly becoming less and less necessary. And thus, they are on a slow path to quaint antiquity.
Some books, of course, are already there — the ones that photographer Kerry Mansfield collects and documents, for instance. Mansfield is constantly on the lookout, whether at garage sales or on eBay, for books that used to be in a library’s collection but now bear the stamp of having been “Withdrawn” or “Discarded.”
Once she obtains one of these volumes, she takes its portrait. Sometimes the image is of the whole book and other times just a detail. But either way, the photos wonderfully preserve and remind us of the texture and smell of old books (as well as the excitement of borrowing them and the fear of facing the librarian when we don’t return them), feelings that will mean less to our children than they do to us, and then even less to their children…
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Pet photographer Ren Netherland travels around capturing the insanity of extreme dog grooming at various competitions across the U. S. Here are some recent examples…
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Quilling is an art form in which the quiller creates images by curling strips of paper into various shapes and sizes and then gluing them together.
Last year, over the course of 6 months, artist Amber Rousse quilled a world map. She used various widths of paper strips to add topographical complexity to the land masses. And she used swirls throughout the green of the water to represent ocean currents…
Here are some of her photos showing a bit of the process and some details…
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Most of these drawings by Ramon Bruin seem relatively simple, but at the same time, because of their shadows and some intriguingly placed real-life props in the photographs, the sketched images appear to be almost magically leaving the bounds of the paper they’re drawn on…
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In a recent series of self-portraits, photographer Flora Borsi pretended to be applying various Photoshop techniques to herself in real life…
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