In the wake of Japan's recent quakes, Halford noticed an odd, semi-social photographic trend rumbling under the internet's surface: Japanese people were uploading hundreds of images of denuded library shelves and fields of unorganized books. "Why libraries?" Halford wondered.
So this is a fantastic website. Reed has created this hub for their artists' books collection. They've digitized many books, so you can look at books page by page. If you do enough clicking and searching to get to the individual pages, you can zoom in really far on the pages. All in all, a great artists' books resource.
How to get to the place where you zoom in:
Click on the book you want to see. On this page you can watch a slide show of someone going through the book. They even start with taking the book out of its case/box. However, if you want to see individual pages zoomed in, you can click the "view in context" button next to the title of the book that is located below the slide show. Not all of the books have this option, but many do.
Have you seen the YouTube video about "Trajan," the movie font? (Just type the words movie font in the search box at YouTube.) In my mind it certainly qualifies as an overused font, although it also makes it into some people's "top ten" lists (see below!).
A celebratory discussion from the American Antiquarian Society to mark the completion of the series, from "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" to "Print Culture in Postwar America", published in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.Through these publications and the AAS Program in the History of the Book, the Society is acknowledged as a leader in the emerging international field of book history. The United States series- from Codex to the Kindle- is a lively consideration of authorship, reading, and publishing in the development of American life and culture.
Looks like a very informative youtube video!
