re-cover nr.117

Livro do Desassossego - Fernando Pessoa

These images were shot in Aveiro in 2013.

Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher.

Livro do Desassossego: composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa (English title - The Book of Disquiet) was published posthumously for the first time in 1982 

re-cover nr.116

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron - Daniel Clowes

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2012.

Daniel Clowes is an American author, screenwriter, and cartoonist of alternative comic books.
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron was first published in 1993.

re-cover nr.115

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.

re-cover nr.114

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."

re-cover nr.113

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."

re-cover nr.112

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'(...)"

re-cover nr.111

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.

re-cover nr.110

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.

re-cover nr.109

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, (...)"

re-cover nr.108

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.

re-cover nr.107

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.

re-cover nr.106

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."

re-cover nr.105

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.

re-cover nr.104

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."

re-cover nr.103

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"

re-cover nr.102

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.".

re-cover nr.101

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.

re-cover nr.100

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."

re-cover nr.99

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."

re-cover nr.98

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."