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Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books

The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 2:37 AM and filed under art, photography, words.
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Comments (2) to “Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books”

  1. Sir jorge wrote:

    I must be dumb, because I don’t really understand.

    Posted on 30-May-07 at 10:34 am | Permalink

  2. Liz wrote:

    If you read the titles, you’ll notice the books contradict, differentiate, or tell something even more subtle, giving us something to think about. And all through simplistic photography. The gallery link leads to more book clusters and descriptions explaining it way better than I just did. And yes, it took a good ten minutes of blank staring to get it; so don’t feel bad. hahah

    Posted on 30-May-07 at 7:52 pm | Permalink