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Book Shelves #34, 8.19.2012
Book shelves series #34, thirty-fourth Sunday of 2012 A little end table next to the couch in our family room. The books on top are little art books we keep out for the kids to look at, including...
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Book Shelves #35, 8.27.2012
Book shelves series #35, thirty-fifth Sunday of 2012 Corner case in the family room. Today’s shelf: The depth makes getting the shadow off the shot almost impossible without using additional...
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Book Shelves #36, 9.02.2012
Book shelves series #36, thirty-sixth Sunday of 2012 Continuing the corner book shelf in the family room. The bookends are tschotskes from a ¥100 shop; we bought them years ago in Tokyo. Not...
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Book Shelves #38, 9.16.2012
Book shelves series #38, thirty-eighth Sunday of 2012 The final entry on this corner piece. What have these volumes in common? They are all aesthetically pleasing. They are all too tall to fit...
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Book Shelves #39, 9.23.2012
Book shelves series #39, thirty-ninth Sunday of 2012 Too many beers yesterday. Can’t write anything good. Can’t even take a decent pic. Ten of these shelves hold books; hence books shelves #40-49. And...
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Book Shelves #40, 9.30.2012
Book shelves series #40, fortieth Sunday of 2012 So we dip into the penultimate book shelf in this series, the one I shot last week in hazy hangover. (This shelf is lower right; I’ll be working down...
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Book Shelves #41, 10.07.2012
Book shelves series #41, forty-first Sunday of 2012 Lots of lovely books and mags with pictures. Several years worth of subscription to The Believer, with an unsorted stack setting up front: I...
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Book Shelves #44, 10.28.2012
Book shelves series #44, forty-fourth Sunday of 2012 Not a particularly beautiful shelf—it sits between a TV and a soundbar; houses an unused Wii, an analog clock, and a picture of my kids. The books...
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Book Shelves #45, 11.04.2012
Book shelves series #45, forty-fifth Sunday of 2012 Yon shelf, murky, dim: Homeboy on the end, once my parents’, tschotchke of time in ’80s South Africa, used to work as a bookend, now he just hangs...
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Book Shelves #46, 11.11.2012
Book shelves series #46, forty-sixth Sunday of 2012 Another double-stacked shelf. This one even has a stack of drifters. This shelf is at my eye/arm level, and looking at it this way, I see that it...
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Book Shelves #47, 11.18.2012
Book shelves series #47, forty-seventh Sunday of 2012 So this is what happens—books pile up. Okay, maybe that sentence is missing a clear subject: I pile books up. This stack mounded on my record...
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Book Shelves #48, 11.25.2012
Book shelves series #48, forty-eighth Sunday of 2012 Another doublestocked shelf: The front stack (on the right) are all books I’ve been intending to read at some point, or been reading slowly or...
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Book Shelves #50, 12.09.2012
Book shelves series #50, fiftieth Sunday of 2012 There are fifty-three Sundays in 2012. I ran out of book shelves last week. Here are some shelves/books from my office (work). One wall is floor-to...
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“Making Pictures Is How I Talk to the World”— Dmitry Samarov Talks to...
Henri by Dmitry Samarov Dmitry Samarov is an artist and writer who lives and works in Chicago. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993, Dmitry drove cabs for twelve...
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Book Shelves #51, 12.16.2012
Book shelves series #51, fifty-first Sunday of 2012 I am very ready for this project to be over. Two more weeks. At this point, I’ve photographed all book shelves (and other bookbearing surfaces)...
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Book Shelves #52, 12.23.2012
Book shelves series #52, fifty-second Sunday of 2012: In which, in this penultimate chapter, we return to the site of entry #1. The first entry in this project was my bedside nightstand. This is what...
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Book Shelves #53, 12.30.2012 (Final Entry)
Book shelves series #53, fifty-third—and final!—Sunday of 2012: In which I take a few photos at random. I somehow managed to squeeze 52 weeks of shots out of all the book-bearing surfaces of my home...
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