re-cover nr.83

Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 2009. It shows a photo of Barack Obama by Terry Richardson featured in Purple Fashion magazine (spring-summer 2009).

Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States of America. Dreams From My Father was first published in 1995.

"It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."

re-cover nr.82

Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 2004.

Ted Hughes was an English poet and children's writer.
Birthday Letters was first published in 1998.

The 2003 film Sylvia tells the story of Ted Hughes' relationship with the American poet Sylvia Plath.

"It was a visit from the goddess, the beauty
Who was poetry's sister - she had come
To tell poetry she was spoiling us.
Poetry listened, maybe, but we heard nothing
And poetry did not tell us. And we
Only did what poetry told us to do."

re-cover nr.81

The Poems of John Keats - John Keats

This picture was taken in Mont Royal, Montreal 2009.

John Keats was an English poet. His first volume of poems was published in 1817.

The 2009 film Bright Star, written and directed by Jane Campion, is based on the last years of Keats' life.

"BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art -
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors -
No - yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever - or else swoon to death."

re-cover nr.80

Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind

This picture was taken in Barneys New York, NYC 2009. The dress is from Mary Katrantzou.
Patrick Süskind is a German writer. Das Parfum (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) was first published in German in 1985.

The novel was adapted to cinema in 2006, and it was directed by Tom Tykwer.

"The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces.The peasant stank as did the priest, the apprentice as did his master’s wife, the whole of the aristocracy stank, even the king himself stank, stank like a rank lion, and the queen like an old goat, summer and winter."

re-cover nr.79

La Coquetterie - Catherine N'Diaye

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Catherine N'Diaye is a French-Senegalese writer. La Coquetterie ou La Passion du Détail (in English: Coquetterie or the Passion for Detail) was first published in 1987.

re-cover nr.78

The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis

These are i-zone polaroids taken between 2003 and 2007 in Ílhavo and Amsterdam.

Bret Easton Ellis is an American author.

The Rules of Attraction was first published in 1987.

"Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here."

re-cover nr.77

Emotion Pictures - Wim Wenders

This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Wim Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.

Emotion Pictures was first published in German (Emotion Pictures: Essays und Filmkritiken, 1968-1984), in 1986.

"I want to make personal films, not private films."

re-cover nr.76

The Image of the City - Kevin Lynch

This picture was taken in Helsinki in 2008.

Kevin Lynch was an American urban planner and author.
The Image of the City was first published in 1960.

"Where the journey contains such a series of distinct events, a reaching and passing of one sub-goal after another, the trip itself takes on meaning and becomes an experience in its own right."

"A street is perceived, in fact, as a thing which goes toward something. The path should support this perceptually by strong termini, and by a gradient or a directional differentiation, so that it is given a sense of progression, and the opposite directions are unlike."

re-cover nr.75

Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

This picture was taken in Paris in 2008.

George Orwell is the pen name of the late English author Eric Arthur Blair.
Down and Out in Paris and London was first published in 1933.

"You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring. It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping."

re-cover nr.74

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog - Dylan Thomas

This drawing was made in 2006, in Amsterdam.

Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet, short-story writer and script writer for film and radio.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was first published in 1940. The title refers to James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

re-cover nr.73

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

This picture is a damaged polaroid.
Anthony Burgess is the pseudonym of Jonh Burgess Wilson, a late English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.A Clockwork Orange was first published in 1962.
Vinyl is an early adaptation of the novel by Andy Warhol in 1965, starring Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick and Ondine, among others.
A Clockwork Orange has been also adapted for cinema by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, starring Malcolm McDowell.

"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."

re-cover nr.72

The male cross-dresser support group - Tama Janowitz

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, in 2003.

Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and short story writer. The male cross-dresser support group was first published in 1991.

"With publicity comes humiliation."

re-cover nr.71

The Decay of the Angel - Yukio Mishima

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.
Yukio Mishima was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka, a Japanese author, poet and playwright.The Decay of the Angel (Tennin Gosui, original Japanese title) was first published in 1970, and is the last of a cycle of four novels entitled The Sea of Fertility.

"It was a bright, quiet garden, without striking features. Like a rosary rubbed between the hands, the shrilling of cicadas held sway.
There was no other sound. The garden was empty. He had come, thought Honda, to a place that had no memories, nothing.
The noontide sun of summer flowed over the still garden."

re-cover nr.70

Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx

This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author.
Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker in 1997.

Brokeback Mountain was adapted to cinema in 2005, and directed by Ang Lee.

"I wish I knew how to quit you."

re-cover nr.69

Significant Others - Edited by Whitney Chadwick and Isabelle de Courtivron

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Whitney Chadwick is an American art historian and author. Isabelle de Courtivron is Professor of French Studies and Head of the Foreign Languages and Literatures department at MIT.

Significant Others was first published in 1993.

"Traditional biographies and monographs have typically described creativity as an extraordinary (usually male) individual’s solitary struggle for artistic self-expression. We decided instead, to explore the complexities of partnerships and collaborations, painful as well as enriching. We chose to focus on couples (whether different or same sex) because couples are endlessly fascinating in the diversity of their interactions."

re-cover nr.68

La Condition Postmoderne - Jean-François Lyotard

This photo was taken in Aveiro in 2008.
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher.La Condition postmoderne (The Postmodern Condition, in English) was first published in 1979.

"...is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?"

re-cover nr.66

On Love and Barley - Basho

This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Matsuo Basho was a Japanese Haiku poet from the Edo period.
On Love and Barley was first published in English in 1985. The poems date from the second half of the 17th century.


"Departing spring -
birds cry
and in the eyes of fish, tears."

re-cover nr.65

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.
 
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist. Orlando was first published in 1928.
Orlando was adapted to film in 1992. The film was directed by Sally Potter, and stars Tilda Swinton as Orlando.

"She had been a gloomy boy, in love with death, ... as boys are; and then she had been amorous and florid; and then she had been sprightly and satirical; and sometimes she had tried prose and sometimes she had tried drama. Yet through all these changes she had remained, she reflected, fundamentally the same. She had the same brooding meditative temper, the same love of animals and nature, the same passion for the country and the seasons."

re-cover nr.64

The Symposium - Plato

This picture was taken at the exhibition Endless Installation: A Ghost Story For Adults by PSWAR, in SMART Project Space in Amsterdam 2009.

Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Academy in Athens. The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written around 385 BC.
Platonic Love is derived from a concept of love in Plato's Symposium .

"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"

re-cover nr.63

Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi

This photo was taken in Gaudí's Casa Milà, Barcelona, in 2005.

Hanif Kureishi is a Pakistani-English writer and filmmaker. Intimacy was first published in 1998.
Intimacy was adapted to film in 2001 by director Patrice Chéreau.

"It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back."

re-cover nr.62

The doors of perception - Aldous Huxley

This photo was taken in La maison Roche-Jeanneret / Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, 2008. The house was designed by Le Corbusier, and built in 1923-24.
 
Aldous Huxley was an English writer. The doors of perception was first published in 1954. The title comes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.".

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder."

re-cover nr.61

Die bitteren tränen der Petra von Kant - R.W. Fassbinder

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2003.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, writer and actor.
Die bitteren tränen der Petra von Kant (The bitter tears of Petra von Kant, English translation) is a theater play first performed in 1971, and first published in 1984.
Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant is also a 1972 German film directed by Fassbinder, and based upon his play.

"I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house."

re-cover nr.60

Song of Myself - Walt Whitman

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. Song of Myself was first published in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."

re-cover nr.59

La Société du Spectacle - Guy Debord

This photo was taken in Barcelona, in front of MACBA, in 2005.
 
Guy Debord was a French philosopher, writer, filmmaker, and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International (SI). La Société du Spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle, English translation) was first published in French in 1967.
La Société du Spectacle is also the name of a film made by Guy Debord in 1973, based on his book.

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."

 

re-cover nr.58

Livro de Mágoas - Florbela Espanca

This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Florbela Espanca was a Portuguese poet. Livro de Mágoas (The Book of Sorrows, in English) was first published in 1919.

"To be a poet is to be taller, to be bigger
Than average men!
It is to bite as if you’re kissing!
It is to give alms, although you are a beggar,
Like the king of a realm where only pain is missing!
It is to have inside yourself a flaming star,
To have the condor's mighty claw and wing!
To be hungry and thirsty for the sky!
To condense the world into one lonely cry!"

re-cover nr.57

This is Modern Art - Matthew Collings

This picture is a detail from graffiti and was taken on the streets of Amsterdam in 2009.
 
Matthew Collings is a British art critic, broadcaster and author. This is Modern Art was first published in English in 2000.
This is Modern Art was also a six-part TV series, written and presented by Matthew Collings, broadcast in 1998 on Channel 4.

"The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that."

re-cover nr.56

Women, Art, and Society - Whitney Chadwick

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Whitney Chadwick is an American art historian and author. Women, Art, and Society was first published in 1990.

"The subject of the nude in art brings together discourses of representation, morality, and female sexuality, but the persistent presentation of the nude female body as a sight of male viewing pleasure, a commodified image of exchange, and a fetishized defense against the fear of castration leaves little place for explorations of female subjectivity, knowledge, and experience."

re-cover nr.55

O Búzio de Cós - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

This black and white polaroid was taken in the Groninger Museum in 2002.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was a Portuguese poet and writer. O Búzio de Cós was first published in 1997.
In 1969, João César Monteiro made a short documentary, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, about the Portuguese poet.

re-cover nr.54

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2003.

Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist, short story writer and entomologist.
Lolita was written in English and first published in 1955.
Lolita was adapted to film in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick.

"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."

re-cover nr.53

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer. Anna Karenina was first published in 1877.
In 1908, Tolstoy was photographed by the pioneer in colour photography Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.

"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."

re-cover nr.52

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author.
The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1891.
In the book, Dorian Gray attends a performance of Richard Wagner's opera, Tannhäuser, and is explicitly said to personally identify with the work.
A British biographical film, Wilde, with Stephen Fry in the titular role, was released in 1997.

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"

re-cover nr.51

De Stijl - Paul Overy

These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Paul Overy was a British art historian and critic. De Stijl was first published in 1969, as a short study of De Stijl (literally "the style"). A larger study of the art movement was published in 1991.

Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan, among others, were founders of De Stijl in 1917. Gerrit Rietveld became a member of the movement in 1919.

re-cover nr.50

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo - Christiane F.

This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

We Children from the ZOO Station (English translation) is an autobiographical book based upon interviews with the German teen drug addict Christiane F. The narrative of the book is in the first person, but was written by two German journalists (Kai Herrmann and Horst Rieck) functioning as ghostwriters. The book was first published in Germany, in 1979.
The story was adapted to film in 1981, directed by Uli Edel, in which Christiane F. worked as an advisor. The soundtrack is by David Bowie, who appears in the film as himself, while giving a concert.

re-cover nr.49

Les chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont

These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2002 (top) and in 2008 (bottom).

Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, an Urugaian-born French poet.
Les chants de Maldoror (Maldoror, in English) was first published in 1869.
An edition of Les chants de Maldoror, published in 1934, was ilustrated by Salvador Dalí. René Magritte also ilustrated the book for a 1946 edition.

re-cover nr.48

Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2007.

Susan Sontag was an American philosopher and author.
Against Interpretation was first published in 1966.

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings'."

re-cover nr.47

Thinking About Exhibitions - Edited by Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, Sandy Nairne

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.
Reesa Greenberg is a Canadian writer and art critic, Bruce W. Ferguson is a Canadian independent curator and art critic, and Sandy Nairne is a British museum director and writer.
Thinking About Exhibitions was first published in 1996.

"The visitor is a body in movement."

re-cover nr.46

Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan

This picture of a Dior outdoor was taken in Paris in May 2008.
 
Françoise Sagan was a French writer. Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness, in English) was first published in 1954. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard.
In 1958, Bonjour Tristesse was adapted to film.
The words Bonjour Tristesse were also written on the façade of Siza Vieira's apartment building in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."

re-cover nr.45

Babyji - Abha Dawesar

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Abha Dawesar is an Indian novelist.
Babyji was first published (in English) in 2005.

"I want to collapse my wave function into you."

re-cover nr.44

Less than zero - Bret Easton Ellis

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Bret Easton Ellis is an American author.
Less than zero, titled after the Elvis Costello song of the same name, was first published in 1985.

Less than zero was adapted into a movie in 1987.

"She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling."

re-cover nr.43

On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

These pictures were taken in Paris in 2008.

Charles Darwin was an English biologist and author.
On the Origin of Species was first published in England in 1859.

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

P.S. Luis, esta é para ti!

re-cover nr.42

Crash - J. G. Ballard

This picture was taken in Paris, in 2008.
 
J. G. Ballard is a British writer. Crash was first published in 1973.
In 1996, the novel was made into a movie of the same name by Canadian film director David Cronenberg.

"After having...been constantly bombarded by road-safety propaganda, it was almost a relief to find myself in a real accident."

re-cover nr.41

Opera Aperta - Umberto Eco

This picture was taken in the installation "Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field" (1965 - Yayoi Kusama), at the "Mirrored Years" exhibition in the Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam 2008.

Umberto Eco is an Italian philosopher and novelist.
Opera Aperta was first published in 1962. The book was translated to English in 1989 as The Open Work.

"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."

re-cover nr.40

The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2006.

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian psychiatrist.
The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung - original German title) was first published in German in 1899.

In 1962 was release Freud the Secret Passion, an American film based on the life of Freud. Jean-Paul Sartre was involved in the script writing.
In 1945 Alfred Hitchcock directed Spellbound, a psychological thriller that highlights psychoanalysis merits. Salvador Dali designed the dream sequence.
Edward Bernays, Freud’s nephew, was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using Freud's psychoanalytical ideas on the subconscious.

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

re-cover nr.39

Ethica Ordine Geometrico demonstrata - Spinoza

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch Philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Ethica (Ethics demonstrated in geometrical order - English translation) was written in Latin and published posthumously in 1677.

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."

re-cover nr.38

Nana - Emile Zola

This is an i-zone polaroid taken in Amsterdam in 2003.
 
Emile Zola was a French writer. Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume series Les Rougons-Macquart, and was first published in book form in 1880.

"In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it."

re-cover nr.37

On the road - Jack Kerouac

This photo was taken in a subway station in Brussels, in 2007.

Jack Kerouac was an American writer. On the road is a largely autobiographical novel written in 1951 and first published in 1957.

re-cover nr.36

On the road - Jack Kerouac

This picture was taken in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, in 2008.

Jack Kerouac was an American writer. On the road is an autobiographical novel written in 1951, and first published in 1957.

re-cover nr.35

The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq

This picture was taken from a plane, somewhere over Europe, in 2004.

Michel Houellebecq is a French writer.
The Possibility of an Island was originally published in French (La possibilité d'une île) in 2005.

"And love, where all is easy,
Where all is given in the instant;
There exists in the midst of time
The possibility of an island."

P.S. Gui, esta é para ti!

re-cover nr.34

Sex, Art, and American Culture - Camille Paglia

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, in November 2008. The drawing was made in 2004.
 
Camille Paglia is an American author and feminist. Sex, Art, and American Culture was first published in 1992.