The Art of Reading

Lawrence Schwartzwald
9783958295087 / 3958295088       
The Art of Reading

The Art of Reading

Lawrence Schwartzwald
9783958295087 / 3958295088       
Publisher Steidl 2018
Edition Hardcover , 144 pages
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The Art of Reading presents New York photographer Lawrence Schwartzwald’s (born 1953) candid images of readers, made between 2001 and 2017. Partly inspired by André Kertész’s On Reading (1971), Schwartzwald’s subjects are mostly average New Yorkers—sunbathers, a bus driver, shoeshine men, subway passengers, denizens of bookshops and cafes—but also artists (most notably Amy Winehouse at Manhattan’s now-closed all-night diner Florent).In 2001 Schwartzwald’s affectionate photo of a New York bookseller reading at his makeshift sidewalk stand on Columbus Avenue (and inadvertently exposing his generous buttock cleavage) caused a minor sensation: first published in the New York Post, it inspired a reporter for the New York Observer to interview the “portly peddler” in a humorous column titled “Wisecracking on Columbus Avenue” of 2001. Since then Schwartzwald has sought out his readers of books on paper—mostly solitary and often incongruous, desperate or vulnerable—who fly in the face of the closure of traditional bookshops and the surge in e-books, dedicating themselves to what Schwartzwald sees as a vanishing art: the art of reading.

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Book title The Art of Reading
Photographer Lawrence Schwartzwald
ISBN 10 3958295088        / 3-95829-508-8       
ISBN 13 9783958295087 / 978-3-95829-508-7
Publisher Steidl
Publish date Aug 2018
Publish year 2018
Book format Hardcover
Book format details clothbound
Language English
Pages 144 pages
Dimensions 22 x 23 cm / 9.5 x 11.75 inches

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