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| | | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 8/12/2019 Featured image is reproduced from Wild Beads of Africa, a book unlike any other on our list, and a staff favorite at the SHOPPE OBJECT 3.0 Home & Gift Show closing today in New York. Presenting the astonishing old powderglass bead collection of songwriter Billy Steinberg, it is the first book dedicated to the nineteenth-century beads made by the Ashanti and Ewe people of Ghana and Togo from finely-ground, recycled glass. In West Africa, they are regarded as magical, according to essayists John and Ruth Picard, and “worn proudly as a symbol of prestige and wealth. Their protective powers are well known, somewhat equivalent to the dZi beads of Tibet.” DATE 8/10/2019 This 1930 photograph of Frida Kahlo, pregnant, at Casa Azul—the family home she shared with Diego Rivera in Coyoacán, Mexico City—is reproduced from Frida Kahlo: Her Photos, a featured title at SHOPPE OBJECT 3.0. On the back, Kahlo has written, "Here's a picture of your girl in August 1930, and to you she dedicates this photo with buten [sic] of amore. Freon." Casa Azul provides the setting for many of the most dramatic and fascinating photographs in this collection. "Amidst an array of exotic animals—parrots, xoloescuintle dogs, monkeys and deer—the guests in the Casa Azul were part of the private entertainments (paintings, letters, diaries, drawings, and photographs) that would soon be transformed into a public show," Laura González Flores writes. "These photographs are fascinating not because of the objective information we can draw from them, but because the Casa Azul social drama is congealed in them in a kind of everlasting present." Some, however, "accidentally unveil that which the mask-image has striven to hide." DATE 8/9/2019 Featured image is reproduced from Voyagers, editor Melissa Catanese's dreamy, enigmatic selection of 67 unattributed early- to mid-century vernacular photographs of people blissfully lost in the act of reading—all culled from the renowned Peter J. Cohen collection. No explanatory or congratulatory essay weighs the book down. However, the front and back covers are printed with an excerpt from Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. It ends, "the book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when written, but whose absence is obscurely felt by that which exists, in its own incompleteness." DATE 8/7/2019  DATE 8/5/2019  DATE 8/2/2019  DATE 7/31/2019  DATE 7/29/2019  DATE 7/26/2019  DATE 7/25/2019  DATE 7/24/2019  DATE 7/23/2019  DATE 7/21/2019  DATE 7/20/2019  DATE 7/19/2019  DATE 7/18/2019  DATE 7/17/2019  DATE 7/16/2019  DATE 7/15/2019  DATE 7/14/2019  DATE 7/13/2019  DATE 7/12/2019  DATE 7/11/2019  DATE 7/10/2019  DATE 7/9/2019  DATE 7/8/2019  DATE 7/5/2019  DATE 7/4/2019  DATE 7/3/2019  DATE 7/2/2019  DATE 7/1/2019  DATE 6/30/2019  DATE 6/29/2019  DATE 6/28/2019  DATE 6/27/2019  DATE 6/27/2019  DATE 6/26/2019  DATE 6/25/2019  DATE 6/24/2019  DATE 6/23/2019  DATE 6/22/2019  DATE 6/21/2019  DATE 6/20/2019  DATE 6/19/2019  DATE 6/18/2019  DATE 6/17/2019  DATE 6/16/2019  DATE 6/16/2019  DATE 6/14/2019  DATE 6/13/2019  DATE 6/11/2019  DATE 6/10/2019  DATE 6/10/2019  DATE 6/8/2019  DATE 6/7/2019  DATE 6/6/2019  DATE 6/5/2019  DATE 6/4/2019  DATE 6/3/2019  DATE 6/1/2019  DATE 5/31/2019  |
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