Books float on the street after a library on Rue Jacob, Paris is flooded during the Great 1910 Parisian Flood.
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October 1, 2013
January 25, 2013
Retro Kodak's Photography Guide Book Covers
In 1898 Eastman Kodak published a guide book for amateur photographers - 'Picture Taking and Picture Making'. In 1905 this book was revised, and the contents of two other booklets ('Home Portraiture' and 'Amateur Portraiture by Flash Light') plus some other articles were added, to form a more comprehensive book - 'The Modern Way in Picture Making'. 'The Modern Way in Picture Making' remained in print, with a revised edition in 1907, until 1912, when it was replaced by 'How to Make Good Pictures'. This book remained in print until almost the end of the century, with a change of title in 1981 to 'How to Take Good Pictures'.
In the USA there were 37 editions, with many reprints and variations. In the UK there were fewer editions. The early UK editions were based heavily on the USA editions; later editions became more independent. The book became a truly world-wide phenomenon, with a great many editions in other countries and other languages. Many editions world-wide were based on the UK editions.
Below are some photography guide book covers published by Kodak in USA in the past.
In the USA there were 37 editions, with many reprints and variations. In the UK there were fewer editions. The early UK editions were based heavily on the USA editions; later editions became more independent. The book became a truly world-wide phenomenon, with a great many editions in other countries and other languages. Many editions world-wide were based on the UK editions.
Below are some photography guide book covers published by Kodak in USA in the past.
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December 17, 2012
A Book Cover From 1983
“This is how Latin America suffers”
From the author’s website, via Google Translate:
(via reddit)
From the author’s website, via Google Translate:
Jose Borja although Ecuadorian by birth, is best defined as a “world citizen”. Veteran and hard life, has faced opponents as found in front, and difficulties that nobody thought existed. While he always emerged victorious, unfortunately two children gave their lives in the battlefield. For one day so decided to write what we say are his memoirs, but in reality have been slowly prophecies have been fulfilled. For example, the Twin Towers of New York predicted twenty years before it happened. The cover of this book was published after by many of the world print media highlighting the fact. Borja also has written countless reviews in national and international newspapers, with their traditional direct style, sharp and poignant. Recent years have devoted his life to support ex-merchant seamen and veterans like him, that fate has treated poorly and adrift as human beings.It’s not really the prediction that’s eerie, it’s the illustration: the collapsing tower, the falling people.
(via reddit)
September 1, 2011
47 Interesting Vintage Photos of Marilyn Monroe Reading Book
Marilyn Monroe loved to read. She loved James Joyce, Walt Whitman, and poet Heinrich Heine. Saul Bellow and Carl Sandburg were literary heroes. Truman Capote and Isak Dinesen were her friends.
According to Open Culture, when Monroe died in 1962 she left around 400 books behind, “many of which were later catalogued and auctioned off by Christie’s in New York City.”
Now on Library Thing you can get a look at 262 of those books—her collection included Ulysses by James Joyce, Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie, The Roots Of American Communism by Theodore Draper, The Bible, How To Travel Incognito by Ludwig Bemelmans, The Little Engine That Could, and Jack Kerouac's On The Road.
She also had a number of books that spoke to a more domestic life, including The Joy of Cooking, Baby & Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock, and one guide to flower arranging.
According to Open Culture, when Monroe died in 1962 she left around 400 books behind, “many of which were later catalogued and auctioned off by Christie’s in New York City.”
Now on Library Thing you can get a look at 262 of those books—her collection included Ulysses by James Joyce, Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie, The Roots Of American Communism by Theodore Draper, The Bible, How To Travel Incognito by Ludwig Bemelmans, The Little Engine That Could, and Jack Kerouac's On The Road.
She also had a number of books that spoke to a more domestic life, including The Joy of Cooking, Baby & Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock, and one guide to flower arranging.
