Books are Everywhere | André Kertész / Paul Almasy / Andreas Feininger / Giuseppe Grimaldi / Adolfo Kaminsky / Francesc Català-Roca

Paul Almasy, Galerie Vivienne, Paris                                              Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward browsing books on the street, 1950s


“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”

Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting, 1927

Chicago, 1942                                                                                                          Anonyme

Francesc Català-Roca, Used Books with Cat, 1950                                                         Adolfo Kaminsky, Paris, 1948

 Andreas Feininger, Fourth Avenue book store, 1940s                                                  André Kertész, Fourth Ave, New York, 1959      
 

Anthony Perkins browsing a bookstall on Fourth Avenue, NYC, 1958

 Giuseppe Grimaldi Fotoreal, Roma, Italia    

André Kertész, New York City, 1974

Waring Abbott, Lou Reed at 
The Strand book store N.Y., 1986 

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