re-cover project

nr.115: The Golden Age of Dutch Painting - H. van Veen & F. Grijzenhout

2011-05-29T17:50:00.012+02:00

The Golden Age of Dutch Painting in Historical Perspective - Henk van Veen & Frans Grijzenhout

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, in 2010.

The Golden Age of Dutch Painting in Historical Perspective was first published in 1992 with the Dutch title "De Gouden Eeuw in perspectif: Het beeld van de Nederlandse zevendiende-eeuwse schilderkunst in later tijd", and translated to English in 1999.

Henk van Veen and Frans Grijzenhout are two Dutch art historians, scholars and authors.

nr.114: La Ville Radieuse - Le Corbusier

2011-03-04T13:19:00.010+01:00

La Ville Radieuse - Le Corbusier

This picture was taken in front of the ARCAM building, in Amsterdam, 2004.

Le Corbusier was a Swiss architect, designer and urbanist.
La Ville Radieuse (English title - The Radiant City) was first published in 1935.

"Space and light and order."

nr.113: Modulor - Le Corbusier

2011-02-05T20:24:00.007+01:00

Modulor - Le Corbusier

This picture was taken in Paris, 2008, at the Cité Internationale Universitaire. The featured Brazil House was a collaboration by Le Corbusier and Lucio Costa, and it was inaugurated in 1959.

Le Corbusier was a Swiss architect, designer and urbanist.
Modulor was first published in 1948.

"Une maison est une machine à habiter."

nr.112: Garden Cities of To-morrow - Ebenezer Howard

2011-01-08T21:05:00.007+01:00

Garden Cities of To-morrow - Ebenezer Howard

This picture was taken in the UNLIMITED URBAN WOODS Pavilion by DUS Architects, Amsterdam 2010.

Ebenezer Howard was a British urban planner.
Garden Cities of To-morrow was first published in 1898 under the title To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.

"Whatever may have been the causes which have operated in the past, and are operating now, to draw the people into the cities, those causes may all be summed up as 'attractions'(...)"

nr.111: De Grote Zaal - Jacoba van Velde

2010-11-14T18:49:00.009+01:00

De Grote Zaal - Jacoba van Velde

This picture was taken at the Glaspaleis in Heerlen, 2009.

Jacoba van Velde was a Dutch writer and translator.
De Grote Zaal (English translation: The Big Ward) was first published in 1953.

This cover was made for the Nederland Leest 2010 design competition.

nr.110: Crash - J. G. Ballard

2010-11-07T19:40:00.003+01:00

Crash - J. G. Ballard

This picture was taken in Valencia, 2010.

J. G. Ballard was a British novelist and short story writer.
Crash was first published in 1973.

The novel was made into a movie of the same name in 1996 by David Cronenberg.

nr.109: Howl - Allen Ginsberg

2010-10-24T14:31:00.003+02:00

Howl - Allen Ginsberg

This picture was taken in Montreal in 2009.

Allen Ginsberg was an American poet.
Howl was first published in 1956.

The 2010 film Howl, explores the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, and the polemics surrounding the poem.

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, (...)"

nr.108: The Road - Cormac McCarthy

2010-10-13T18:46:00.007+02:00

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

This picture was taken in Düsseldorf in 2010.

Cormac McCarthy is an American writer.
The Road was first published in 2006.

The Road is also the name of a 2009 film based on Cormac McCarthy's novel.

nr.107: Motel Chronicles - Sam Shepard

2010-10-03T17:28:00.006+02:00

Motel Chronicles - Sam Shepard

This polaroid was taken in Praia da Barra, in 1996.

Sam Shepard is an American actor and author.
Motel Chronicles was first published in 1982.

nr.106: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin

2010-09-26T12:08:00.014+02:00

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin

This picture was taken in Düsseldorf in 2010.

Walter Benjamin was a German philosopher.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (original German title: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit) was first published in 1935.

"Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."

nr.105: Ghost World - Daniel Clowes

2010-09-19T18:15:00.005+02:00

Ghost World - Daniel Clowes

This picture was taken in Leiria in 2010.

Daniel Clowes is an American cartonist.
Ghost World was serialized from 1993 to 1997 and first published in book form in 1997.

The book was the basis for the 2001 feature film of the same name.

nr.104: Shoplifting from American Apparel - Tao Lin

2010-09-12T16:33:00.013+02:00

Shoplifting from American Apparel - Tao Lin

These polaroids were taken in Amsterdam in 2005.

Tao Lin is an American writer and artist, and one of the editors of Muumuu House.
Shoplifting from American Apparel was first published in 2009.

American Apparel is an American leading basics brand.

"If I shoplifted from corporations and sold it on eBay and then spent all my money on the best venues possible, like independent organic vegan grocery stores or restaurants, then that would be, like, improving the world."

nr.103: Hamlet - William Shakespeare

2010-08-28T22:44:00.011+02:00

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

These pictures were taken in the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam in 2009.

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright.
Hamlet was first published around 1600.

Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Kenneth Branagh, and more recently Jude Law, among others, all played Hamlet both on stage or on screen.
The first adaptation of Hamlet to screen though was Sarah Bernhardt's five-minute film of the fencing scene in 1899.
The film The Bad Sleep Well (1960), by Akira Kurosawa, is also based upon the play.
Heiner Müller, in 1977, wrote a postmodernist version of Hamlet, Die Hamletmaschine.

"To be or not to be - that is the question"

nr.102: The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

2010-08-15T15:12:00.005+02:00

The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

This picture was taken in the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam in 2009.

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. The Merchant of Venice was first published around 1600.

In 1914, The Merchant of Venice was for the first time adapted to cinema by Lois Weber.

"I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.".

nr.101: Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

2010-07-21T18:29:00.010+02:00

Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in June, 2010. It was shot inside the Gashouder at the Westergasfabriek, during the Holland Festival. The white open pavilion, signed by Zaha Hadid, was specially designed to house J.S. Bach’s concerts.

Stanislaw Lem was a Polish writer.
Solaris was first published in 1961.

The Sci-Fi novel was adapted to the cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972, and by Steven Soderbergh in 2002.

nr.100: Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau

2010-07-02T11:21:00.008+02:00

Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau

This picture was taken in Geneve in 2009.

Jean Cocteau was a French writer, artist and filmmaker.
Les Enfants Terribles (The Holy Terrors, English translation) was first published in 1929.
The novel was made into a film of the same name, a collaboration between Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville, in 1950.
Les Enfants Terribles is also the third installment of the Opera trigoly by Philip Glass, based on Cocteau' s works.

"What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn."

nr.99: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

2010-05-30T18:07:00.007+02:00

Also Sprach Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

This picture was taken at the United Nations Office in Geneve, 2009.

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher.
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, English translation) was first published in 1883.

"We love life not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving."

nr.98: Justine - Marquis de Sade

2010-05-23T22:17:00.008+02:00

Justine - Marquis de sade

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 2010.

Marquis de Sade was a French writer.
Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu (Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue, Emglish translation) was first published in 1791.

In 1793, the rival writer Rétif de la Bretonne published Anti Justine as an answer to the de Sade's Justine.
In 1969 Klaus Kinski starred as the Marquis in a film version of Justine, directed by Jesus Franco, and titled Marquis de Sade: Justine.
In the year 2000 premiered the film Quils, based on the life of De Sade.

"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice."

nr.97: Snakes and Earrings - Hitomi Kanehara

2010-05-15T13:11:00.004+02:00

Snakes and Earrings - Hitomi Kanehara

This photo was taken in London, 2009.

Hitomi Kanehara is a Japanese novelist. Snakes and Earrings (Hebi ni Piasu, in Japanese) was first published in 2003.

"I often like to think that if sunlight reached into everywhere on the entire planet, I’d find a way to turn myself into a shadow."

nr.96: The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

2010-05-13T21:57:00.017+02:00

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

This picture was taken in Montreal in 2009.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and poet.
The Raven was first published in 1845.

The Raven was translated to French by Stéphane Mallarmé, and Charles Baudelaire. The poem has also been illustrated by several artists, among them Gustave Doré and Édouard Manet.

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"
Merely this, and nothing more."

nr.95: Querelle de Brest - Jean Genet

2010-05-02T20:17:00.010+02:00

Querelle de Brest - Jean Genet

This picture shows a detail of a Paul McCarthy's work, taken at MoMA, NYC, 2009.

Jean Genet was a French writer.
Querelle de Brest (Querelle of Brest, in English) was first published in 1953.

In 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder released Querelle (his final film), based on Querelle de Brest.

"There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter."

nr.94: All Yesterday's Parties - Clinton Heylin

2010-04-18T20:49:00.006+02:00

All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971 - Clinton Heylin

This picture was taken at a Moon & Sun concert at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam 2009.

Clinton Heylin is a British author. All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966-1971 was first published in 2005.

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City. Active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members are Lou Reed and John Cale. The band is named after a book by Michael Leigh. Their debut album featured the late German singer Nico, with whom they often colaborated.
They were the house band for Andy Warhol's Factory and his Exploding Plastic Inevitable events.

nr.93 Die Linkshändige Frau - Peter Handke

2010-04-05T18:32:00.007+02:00

Die Linkshändige Frau - Peter Handke

This photo was shot at Place des Arts, Montreal's Underground City, 2009.

Peter Handke is an Austrian writer.
Die Linkshändige Frau (in English, The Left-Handed Woman) was first published in 1976. The novel was adapted to cinema in 1978, and directed by Handke himself.

nr.92: The Beautiful Boy - Germaine Greer

2010-03-24T21:21:00.005+01:00

The Beautiful Boy - Germaine Greer

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Germaine Greer is an Australian writer and academic.
The Beautiful Boy was first published in 2003.

nr.91: Sex Appeal - Edited by Steven Heller

2010-03-14T21:42:00.012+01:00

Sex Appeal - Edited by Steven Heller

This picture was taken in a subway station in Montreal, in 2009.

Steven Heller is an American author.
Sex Appeal: the Art of Allure in Graphic and Advertising Design was first published in 2000.

"SEX. The word is so graphic. One syllable, two soft, seductive letters ending in a hard, throbbing X.(...) No wonder SEX sells."

nr.90: Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

2010-02-19T21:11:00.006+01:00

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

These pictures were taken in London 2009.

Daphne du Maurier was an English author and playwright. Rebecca was first published in 1938.

Rebecca has been adapted to cinema in 1940 by Alfred Hitchcock.

In 2007 BBC released a TV drama, Daphne, based on the biography by Margaret Forster.

"There were no dark trees here, no tangled undergrowth, but on either side of the narrow path stood azaleas and rhododendrons, not blood-coloured like the giants in the drive, but salmon, white, and gold, things of beauty and of grace, drooping their lovely, delicate heads in the soft summer rain."

nr.89: The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

2010-02-14T13:14:00.008+01:00

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

This picture was taken in Utrecht in 2008.

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), was a Russian-American novelist and philosopher.
The Fountainhead was first published in 1943.
It’s commonly believed that Frank Lloyd Wright served as inspiration for the Howard Roark character in the novel.

The Fountainhead was adapted to cinema in 1949.

Two movies have been made about Rand's life. A 1997 documentary film, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, and The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999), based on the book of the same name by Barbara Branden.

"Sometimes, he was asked to show his sketches; he extended them across a desk, feeling a contraction of shame in the muscles of his hand; it was like having the clothes torn off his body, and the shame was not, that his body was exposed, but that it was exposed to indifferent eyes."

nr.88: Hymnen an die Nacht - Novalis

2010-01-31T17:10:00.006+01:00

Hymnen an die Nacht - Novalis

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a German author and philosopher.
Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night, in English) was first published in 1800.

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

nr.87: Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

2010-01-23T21:50:00.009+01:00

Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Tracy Chevalier is an American writer.
Girl With a Pearl Earring was first published in 1999.

Girl With a Pearl Earring was adapted into a film in 2003.

Girl With a Pearl Earring is a painting by Johannes Vermeer.

nr.86: The Hours - Michael Cunningham

2010-01-22T21:01:00.008+01:00

The Hours - Michael Cunningham

These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Michael Cunningham is an American writer. The Hours was first published in 1998.

The Hours was adapted to cinema in 2002.

"If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."

nr.85: Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami

2010-01-08T21:06:00.011+01:00

Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami

This picture was taken in the Whole Foods Market, New York, 2009.

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer.
Sputnik Sweetheart (Spūtoniku no koibito, in Japanese) was first published in 1999.

"and it came to me then
that we were wonderful travelling companions
but in the end, we were no more but lonely lumps of metal in their own separate
orbits
from far off, they looked like beautiful shooting stars
when the orbits that these two satellite of ours, happened to cross paths, we could
be together
maybe even open our hearts to each other
but that was only for the briefest moment
the next instant, we would be in absolute solitude
until we'd burn up and became nothing"

nr.84: A Better World for Our Children - Dr. Spock

2010-01-01T16:13:00.006+01:00

A Better World for Our Children - Dr. Benjamin M. Spock

These pictures were taken in the London outskirts, in 2009.

Dr. Benjamin M. Spock was an American pediatrician.
A Better World for Our Children was first published in 1994.

"I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies."

nr.83: Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama

2009-12-04T23:05:00.007+01:00

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."

nr.82: Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

2009-11-28T22:01:00.008+01:00

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."

nr.81: The Poems of John Keats - John Keats

2009-11-23T19:59:00.013+01:00

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."

nr.80: Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind

2009-11-20T11:41:00.009+01:00

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."

nr.79: La Coquetterie - Catherine N'Diaye

2009-10-30T22:55:00.006+01:00

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.

nr.78: The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis

2009-09-18T21:00:00.010+02:00

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."

nr.77: Emotion Pictures - Wim Wenders

2009-09-11T22:35:00.007+02:00

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

2009-09-04T23:43:00.006+02:00

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

2009-08-24T20:45:00.004+02:00

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

2009-08-22T11:39:00.007+02:00

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

2009-08-07T23:12:00.006+02:00

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

2009-07-31T21:23:00.005+02:00

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

2009-07-18T23:48:00.005+02:00

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

2009-07-12T00:23:00.004+02:00

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

2009-07-01T21:08:00.004+02:00

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

2009-06-18T21:32:00.007+02:00

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.67

2009-06-13T17:44:00.007+02:00

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.66

2009-06-05T23:43:00.008+02:00

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 2009.

Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist.
Orlando was first published in 1928.

Orlando was adapted to cinema in 1992. The film was directed by Sally Potter, starring 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.65

2009-05-29T22:26:00.014+02:00

The Symposium - Plato

This picture was taken at the exhibition Endless Installation: A Ghost Story For Adults by PSWAR, at 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 .

"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."

"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

"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?"

"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."

re-cover nr.64

2009-05-21T12:09:00.006+02:00

Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi

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

Hanif Kureishi is a Pakistani-English writer and filmmaker. Intimacy was first published in 1998.

Intimacy was adapted to cinema in 2001 by director Patrice Chéreau.

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

re-cover nr.63

2009-05-17T14:58:00.016+02:00

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.62

2009-05-15T21:07:00.010+02:00

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

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 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."

"I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be."

"And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously."

re-cover nr.61

2009-05-08T22:05:00.004+02:00

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."

"Be curious, not judgmental."

"I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers."

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"

re-cover nr.60

2009-04-30T12:34:00.008+02:00

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."

"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."

re-cover nr.59

2009-04-26T12:54:00.010+02:00

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.58

2009-04-18T21:49:00.008+02:00

This is Modern Art - Matthew Collings

This picture 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, and 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."

"Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art."

re-cover nr.57

2009-04-11T18:31:00.008+02:00

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 English 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.56

2009-04-05T22:04:00.002+02:00

O Búzio de Cós - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

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

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was a Portuguese poet and writer.
O Búzio de Cós was first published, in Portuguese, in 1997.

In 1969 João César Monteiro made a short documentary, called Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, about the Portuguese poet.

"Poetry is my understanding with the universe, my way of relating to things, my participation in reality, my encounter with voices and images."

re-cover nr.55

2009-04-03T22:12:00.008+02:00

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 cinema in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick.

"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter."

"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."

"(...) our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

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

re-cover nr.54

2009-03-28T21:46:00.003+01:00

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.

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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

"If you want to be happy, be."

re-cover nr.53

2009-03-27T22:15:00.018+01:00

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 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.

In 1997 was released Wilde, a British biographical film, with Stephen Fry in the titular role.

"Oh how cruel for me to know, each breath will take beauty away."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"

re-cover nr.52

2009-03-17T21:34:00.007+01:00

De Stijl - Paul Overy

These pictures were taken in Amsterdam, 2009.

Paul Overy was a British art historian and critic.
De Stijl was first published as a short study of De Stijl (literally "the style") in 1969, and a longer 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.51

2009-03-14T16:26:00.009+01:00

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo - Christiane F.

This photo was taken in Amsterdam, 2009.

We Children from the ZOO Station (English translation) is an autobiographical book based upon interviews with the German-born and 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.

In 1981, the story was made into a film directed by Uli Edel, in which Christiane worked as an advisor. David Bowie appears as himself in a concert, and also provided the music in the movie, released on the 1981 soundtrack album Christiane F..

re-cover nr.50

2009-03-12T22:26:00.005+01:00

Les chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont

These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2002 (top) and 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 French, 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.

"I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness."

re-cover nr.49

2009-03-10T20:53:00.005+01:00

Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2007.

Susan Sontag was an American author, philosopher, literary theorist and political activist.
Against Interpretation was first published in 1966.

"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought."

"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'."

"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

"(...)art changes morals."

re-cover nr.48

2009-03-06T23:55:00.007+01:00

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 simultaneously published in Canada, USA and UK in 1996.

"The conception of the exhibition will be philosophical."

"The visitor is an eye. (...) The visitor is a body in movement."

re-cover nr.47

2009-02-27T21:13:00.008+01:00

Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan

This picture was taken in Paris in May 2008.
It's a frame of a Dior outdoor.

Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist and screenwriter.
Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness, in English) was first published in 1954, in French. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard.

In 1958 Bonjour Tristesse was adapted to cinema.

The words Bonjour Tristesse were also written on the façade of Siza Vieira's apartment building in Kreuzberg, Berlin, giving it its name.

"Art must take reality by surprise."

"Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

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

re-cover nr.46

2009-02-26T22:37:00.003+01:00

Babyji - Abha Dawesar

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 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.45

2009-02-17T21:21:00.007+01:00

Less than zero - Bret Easton Ellis

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 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.44

2009-02-12T18:56:00.008+01:00

On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

These pictures were taken in Paris in 2008.

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

"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."

"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."

"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.43

2009-02-11T20:56:00.008+01:00

Crash - J. G. Ballard

This picture was taken in Paris, 2008.

J. G. Ballard is a British novelist and short story writer.
Crash was first published in 1973.

The novel was made into a movie of the same name in 1996 by 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.42

2009-01-31T22:52:00.006+01:00

Opera Aperta - Umberto Eco

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

Umberto Eco is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist.
Opera Aperta was first published in 1962, and 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."

"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently."

re-cover nr.41

2009-01-25T13:02:00.015+01:00

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 the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle on the subconscious.

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

re-cover nr.40

2009-01-24T22:20:00.011+01:00

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.

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."

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

re-cover nr.39

2009-01-23T21:12:00.013+01:00

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 as a book in 1880, in French.

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

"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."

"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud."

"If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity."

re-cover nr.38

2009-01-18T20:33:00.008+01:00

On the road - Jack Kerouac

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

Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and painter.

On the road is a largely autobiographical novel written in 1951 and first published in 1957.

"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on."

re-cover nr.37

2009-01-11T20:41:00.016+01:00

On the road - Jack Kerouac

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

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

"We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move."

"What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?"

re-cover nr.36

2009-01-10T13:46:00.003+01:00

L'Étranger - Albert Camus

This picture was taken in Paris, in the Maison Rouge, in 2008.

Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French author, philosopher and journalist who won the Nobel prize in 1957.
L'Étranger (translated to English as The Stranger) was first published in France in 1942.

"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"(...) One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."

re-cover nr.35

2009-01-09T21:31:00.013+01:00

The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq

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

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

A film based on the novel La Possibilité d'une île premiered in France on September 2008. The film was directed by Houellebecq himself.

"We no longer really had the opportunity to go out, nor the taste for it. And then there are lots of things to do, formalities, steps to take...the shopping, the laundry. We need more and more time to look after our health, as well, simply to maintain the body in more or less working order. After a certain age, life becomes administrative - more than anything."

"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

2009-01-02T21:09:00.017+01:00

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, teacher, social critic and dissident feminist.
Sex, Art, and American Culture was first published in 1992.

"Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; (...)."

re-cover nr.33

2008-12-18T23:11:00.002+01:00

Neuromancer - William Gibson

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 2008.

William Gibson is an American-Canadian science-fiction writer.

Neuromancer is a sci-fi novel, first published in 1984. The cover art of the first edition was made by James Warhola, nephew of Andy Warhol.

Gibson has often collaborated with performance artists such as theatre group La Fura dels Baus.

"Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."

re-cover nr.32

2008-12-13T19:28:00.007+01:00

La Maladie de la Mort - Marguerite Duras

This picture was taken in Berlin in 2005.

Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.

La Maladie de la Mort (in English: The Malady of Death) was first published in 1982.

"A writer is a foreign country."

re-cover nr.31

2008-12-09T20:19:00.007+01:00

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

This is a damaged polaroid, taken in Praia da Barra in 1999.

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer.
The Bell Jar is a semi-autobiographical novel, and it was first published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel was published under Plath's name for the first time in 1966.

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

"I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."

re-cover nr.30

2008-12-02T22:01:00.004+01:00

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

This picture was shot in Amsterdam, 2006.

Franz Kafka was a Czech writer, and The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung, original German title) was first published in 1915.

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

"Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency."

re-cover nr.29

2008-12-02T21:18:00.005+01:00

Der Prozess - Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka was a Czech writer, and Der Prozess (The Trial, in English) was first published in German in 1925.

"Every revolution evaporates and leaves only the slime of a new bureaucracy."

"The whole world is growing smaller every day."

re-cover nr.28

2008-11-29T22:13:00.019+01:00

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 the same year was also released M. L. Young's first 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

2008-11-28T20:01:00.012+01:00

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.

"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."

re-cover nr.26

2008-11-26T20:00:00.014+01:00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, 2008.

Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was an English author, mathematician, logician and photographer.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865 and it was inspired by Alice Pleasance Liddell.

"Alice: And how many hours a day did you do lessons?

The Mock Turtle: Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on.

Alice: What a curious plan!

The Gryphon: That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lessen from day to day."

re-cover nr.25

2008-11-23T13:45:00.017+01:00

Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

Picture taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic and essayist.

Der Tod in Venedig (original German title), was first published in 1912 and it wasn't translated to English (Death in Venice) before 1925.

Mann's novella was adapted to

cinema in 1971 by Luchino Visconti. It intruduced Björn Andrésen as Tadzio. The feminist writer Germaine Greer used a photograph of him on the cover of her book The Beautiful Boy (2003).

"For you know that we poets cannot walk the way of beauty without Eros as our companion and guide. We may be heroic after our fashion, disciplined warriors of our craft, yet are we all the women, for we exult in passion, and love is still our desire, our craving and our shame. And from this you will perceive that we poets can be neither wise nor worthy citizens."

re-cover nr.24

2008-11-22T00:01:00.007+01:00

O Medo - Al Berto

Drawing 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, published in 1998. The first edition (1987) comprises the poems only 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."

"le début de la vie a été, peut-être, dans l'harmonie d'une goutte d'eau qui féconde un grain de sable. on ne saura jamais comment est né le désir du poème."

re-cover nr.23

2008-11-20T21:27:00.008+01:00

The Illuminati Papers - Robert Anton Wilson

This photo was taken in Helsinki in May 2008.

Robert Anton Wilson (aka RAW) was an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychonaut, futurologist and libertarian.
The Illuminati Papers is a collection of essays, first published in 1980.

In the 90's 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.)"

"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here."

re-cover nr.22

2008-11-18T21:23:00.005+01:00

Point and Line to Plane - Wassily Kandinsky

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, November 2008.

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

re-cover nr.21

2008-11-16T23:38:00.003+01:00

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories. The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925.
The Great Gatsby was adapted to cinema several times being the 1974 film the most famous version.

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

re-cover nr.20

2008-11-16T02:27:00.013+01:00

South of No North - Charles Bukowski

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, November 2008.

Bukowski was a German American poet, novelist and short story 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."

re-cover nr.19

2008-11-15T14:27:00.012+01:00

Townscape - Gordon Cullen

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in November 2008. It's a reflection on an H&M outdoor featuring their latest 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

2008-11-15T00:37:00.028+01:00

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 in writing the story have been adapted into two films: Capote (2005) and Infamous (2006).

"All literature is gossip."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"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

2008-11-14T23:18:00.011+01:00

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 the advertising man Vendice Partners.

"I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
And I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same"

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Das Kapital - Karl Marx

This picture was taken in the Jardins des Tuileries, Paris, May 2008.

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, sociologist, humanist, political theorist and revolutionary.
Das Kapital (Capital, in the English translation) was first published in 1867 and it was partly edited by Friedrich Engels.

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

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."