Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The aesthetics of bookstacks

I meant to post these a while back, but I got distracted, forgot, my lung collapsed, was busy with work, took too many Ex Libris breaks with Sam, and so on.

My friend from the journalism school at Columbia (not College) took these pictures a while back in their art library stacks. She named the album "Death in the Stacks." While I believe strongly that there could be death(s) in our stacks and that we can get that creepy effect the hands have, I'm not sure we could attempt a photo shoot this pretty and glamorous with our Harvard Yenchings and CJKs. The natural lighting, at least, is just too dull. The best we can get is the big "motion" effect with the compact shelving...woohoo!

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