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[BKARTS] library pr0n
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Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut
Now, coming upon this post as you are, unawares, I feel I ought to
clarify the title (which was alternately going to be sex libris)
straight away by telling you what this post is not, in fact, about.
By "library smut" I am in no way referring to the photo books on
native peoples, or the illustrated health manuals, or any of the
other volumes which, in your childhood, you lurked about the library
aisle to find with the sole purpose of sneaking guilty glances at
naked bodies. Nor am I referring to the "risqué" novels by Miller,
Cleland, Réage, or Lawrence you leafed impatiently through as a
teenager. No. What I'm talking about here is the full-frontal
objectification of the library itself. Oh yeah.
Yesterday I came across a truly gorgeous book of photographs by
Candida Höfer titled, Libraries, a title which pretty much says it
all, because that is just exactly what it is, one rich, sumptuous,
photo of a library interior after another. It's like porn for book
nerds. Seriously. They are gorgeous photos, nearly all without
visitors and just begging to be entered. (ha. sorry.)
See below for 14 examples which I particularly liked, but keep in
mind these 500px wide version can't really compete with the big,
glossy, real thing.
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The Campbell-Logan Bindery, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN USA
612-332-1313 / 800-942-6224
http://www.campbell-logan.com
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