re-cover nr.28

Casual Sex and other verse - Murray Lachlan Young

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Murray L. Young is a British poet and performance artist.
Casual Sex and other verse was first published in 1997. In that same, M. L. Young also released a CD of music-backed verse, Vice & Verse:

- I'm Being Followed by The Rolling Stones
- MTV Super Model
- The Pros en Cons of Superstardom
- Just Another Night (at the seaside)

re-cover nr.27

Oedipus Rex - Sophocles

This photo was taken in Paris, May 2008.
 
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian. Oedipus the King (English translation) was first performed circa 429 BC.
Among other adaptations of the play, Igor Stravinsky composed an opera-oratorio for which Jean Cocteau wrote the libretto (1927), and Pier Paolo Pasolini made a film, Edipo re, in 1967.
In Freud's psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex is also named after the Greek mythical character.

re-cover nr.26

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was an English writer and amateur photographer.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was inspired by Alice Pleasance Liddell and was first published in 1865.

re-cover nr.25

Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Thomas Mann was a German writer.

Der Tod in Venedig (original German title), was first published in 1912. In 1925, it was translated to English as Death in Venice.

Mann's novella was adapted to film in 1971 by Luchino Visconti. It intruduced Björn Andrésen as Tadzio. In 2003, the feminist writer Germaine Greer used a photograph of him on the cover of her book The Beautiful Boy.

re-cover nr.24

O Medo - Al Berto

This drawing was made in Amsterdam in 2006.

Al Berto was the pseudonym used by the Portuguese poet Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares.

O Medo (meaning fear) is a collection of poems written between 1974 and 1997, and published in 1998. The first edition (1987) comprises only the poems until 1986.

"o início da vida esteve, talvez, na harmonia de uma gota de água que fecunda um grão de areia. jamais saberemos como nasceu o desejo do poema."

re-cover nr.23

The Illuminati Papers - Robert Anton Wilson

This photo was taken in Helsinki in May 2008.

Robert Anton Wilson (aka RAW) was an American writer. The Illuminati Papers is a collection of essays, first published in 1980.
In the nineties, RAW starred in two films from the Portuguese film maker Edgar Pêra: Os Túneis da Realidade (aka Who Is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green? - 1996) and Manual de Evasão (1994).

"I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)"

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Point and Line to Plane - Wassily Kandinsky

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, November 2008.

Kandinsky was a Russian artist. He taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 to 1933. There, the development of his work, particularly on point and different forms of lines, lead to the publication of his second major theoretical book, Point and Line to Plane (Punkt und Linie zu Flashe - original German title), in 1926.

re-cover nr.21

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is a photo of Casa de Serralves, taken in Porto in 2006.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer. The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925.
The Great Gatsby was adapted to cinema several times being the 1974 film of the same name the best known version.

"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."

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South of No North - Charles Bukowski

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, November 2008.

Bukowski was a German American writer.
This book is a collection of short stories, first published in 1973 as South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life.
Some of Bukowski's writings were adapted to the cinema. Among those Barfly, from 1987, for which he wrote the screenplay, and Factotum, 2005, adapted from his novel of the same name.

"To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep."

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Townscape - Gordon Cullen

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in November 2008. It's a reflection on an H&M outdoor featuring their collaboration with Comme des Garçons.

Gordon Cullen was an English architect and urban designer. Townscape, published in 1971, is a re-edition of The Concise Townscape, originally published in 1961.

"One contribution to modern townscape, startlingly conspicuous everywhere you look, but almost entirely ignored by the town planner, is street publicity. (...). And yet of all things, this is the most characteristic, and, potentially, the most valuable, contribution of the 20th century to urban scenery."

re-cover nr.18

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

This polaroid was shot in Aveiro in 1997.

Truman Capote was an American writer. In Cold Blood, which Capote labeled a "non-fiction novel", was first published in 1966.
Capote's experiences while writing the story have been adapted into two films: Capote (2005) and Infamous (2006).

"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."

re-cover nr.17

Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes

This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 2006.

Colin MacInnes was an English novelist. Absolute Beginners, written and set in 1958 London, England, was first published in 1959. 
The novel was adapted into a musical film. David Bowie performed the title song and appeared as Vendice Partners.

re-cover nr.16

Das Kapital - Karl Marx

This picture was taken in 2008, at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.

Karl Marx was a German philosopher.
Das Kapital (Capital, in the English translation) was first published in 1867 and was partly edited by Friedrich Engels.

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."

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Twee Vrouwen - Harry Mulisch

These pictures were taken in 2003, in Amsterdam.

Harry Mulisch is a Dutch writer. Two Women (English title) was first published in 1975. The book was adapted to film in 1979, under the title Twice a Woman, directed by George Sluizer.

re-cover nr.14

Os Lusíadas - Luís Vaz de Camões

This is a picture of the piece Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show (1964) by Yayoi Kusama. It was taken in 2008, at the "Mirrored Years" exhibition in Rotterdam.

The Lusiads (English translation) is a Portuguese epic poem by Luis de Camões. It is a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries, first printed in 1572.

P.S. Zeco, esta é para ti!

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Le Deuxième Sexe - Simone de Beauvoir

This is a photo taken in Amsterdam in 2002.

Simone de Beauvoir was a French author and philosopher. The Second Sex (English title) was first published in its original version in 1949.

"However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born."

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Ästhetische Theorie - Theodor W. Adorno

This picture was taken in 2008, at Parc de la Villette in Paris.
Adorno was a German philosopher. Aesthetic Theory (English title) was first published in German in 1970.

"The dual nature of artworks as autonomous structures and social phenomena results in oscillating criteria: Autonomous works provoke the verdict of social indifference and ultimately of being criminally reactionary; conversely, works that make socially univocal discursive judgments thereby negate art as well as themselves."

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Bemerkungen Über die Farben - Ludwig Wittgenstein

This picture was taken at Museu Serralves, Porto, in 2005. The featured building was designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira in 1997.

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher. Remarks on Colour (English translation) was first published in 1977 by G.E.M. Anscombe.
In 1993, the English artist and film director Derek Jarman made a film inspired on the life of the philosopher, called Wittgenstein.