Dan ([info]wordissuperfly) wrote in [info]blackcigarette,
2009-03-04 19:43:00
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Libraries by Candida Hofer

Recently, you guys were posting about your living spaces and such and many of you mentioned your love of libraries and book collecting, a love which I share. So hopefully you will find these scans stylish and inspirational.

These are only a few of the great pictures in this wonderful photo book of libraries around the world that we got from our library. I wish they had chosen better ones from LA, but otherwise this is a great book and I highly recommend picking it up!

BNF--Paris
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You're only seeing like half of some of these pictures because I have a small scanner and this is a large book. But I think the awesomeness still comes across.
British Library--London
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Osterreichishe Nationalbibliotheck-Wein
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Real Gabinete Portuguese de Leitura--Rio de Jeneiro (I hope that the awesome woodwork comes across despite my poor little scanner struggling with the spine).
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Rijksmuseum--Amsterdam
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Trinity College Library--Dublin (I was blown away by all the pictures from Dublin)
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[info]karahikari

March 5 2009, 13:26:13 UTC 3 years ago

so so good!
i get such a lady-boner for amazing libraries
(i am currently drooling a little.
in a internet cafe.
this is very embarrising....)
:)

[info]luxdream

March 5 2009, 14:38:35 UTC 3 years ago

hilarious!

[info]and__beyond

3 years ago

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[info]cadaverique

March 5 2009, 13:33:06 UTC 3 years ago

I saved all of these.

Thank you.

[info]zoundsbooth

March 5 2009, 13:34:51 UTC 3 years ago

pictures of libraries are like porn for me. thanks for posting!

[info]euclase

March 5 2009, 13:38:24 UTC 3 years ago

Curious Expeditions has a nice (and BIG) page of libraries as well. here.

:)

[info]wordissuperfly

March 5 2009, 19:01:55 UTC 3 years ago

Thanks!

[info]mrschuckbass

March 5 2009, 13:41:32 UTC 3 years ago

THANK YOU FOR SCANNING thESE!!! it totally made my day!

[info]bourbonandgod

March 5 2009, 13:48:08 UTC 3 years ago

ohhhh, these are so beautiful. thank you so much - i'm saving these.

[info]chloefairy

March 5 2009, 14:05:03 UTC 3 years ago

soooo pretttyyy.

[info]mausumi

March 5 2009, 14:05:12 UTC 3 years ago

I wish my local library looked equally amazing! Thanks for posting!

[info]batarde

March 5 2009, 14:34:29 UTC 3 years ago

Well, I'm drooling.

[info]neverendeavor

March 5 2009, 14:52:58 UTC 3 years ago Edited:  March 5 2009, 14:58:19 UTC

Ha. I kiiiinda hate you for posting this before I did (seriously, I was going to when I got back from work today).
Have you ever seen recreations of the Library at Alexandria, with its x-shaped shelves? Amazing.

There's some book floating around titled 'Living with Books' or somesuch, and it showed books on a person's stairs and I thought that was quite a way to use several inches of unused space.

[info]spanishpeaches

March 5 2009, 15:26:50 UTC 3 years ago

The Dublin one made me shiver...what is it about libraries?! I want that one in my house!

[info]mee_gone

March 5 2009, 15:32:16 UTC 3 years ago

wow wow wow wow wow wow.

I'm...pretty much speechless. I wish I could live there.

[info]actpassive

March 5 2009, 15:54:34 UTC 3 years ago

Wow these are incredible. I love Rio and Dublin.

I worked in a library for over a year and although I do like books and the idea of libraries in general, mine was not particularly aesthetically pleasing, and the work was (sorry guys) really boring.

[info]greentea_fairy

March 5 2009, 16:00:39 UTC 3 years ago

I had plans to visit all 99 branches of the local library.. but now I think I'm going to have to make that in every city. These are wonderful.

[info]laudanumb

March 5 2009, 16:33:43 UTC 3 years ago

Absolutely amazing. When I lived in DC I'd go to the library of Congress about once a week. They're magical places.

[info]ogr7

March 5 2009, 16:47:38 UTC 3 years ago

THANK YOU. I saw pictures from this book online last year, but they were few and quite small... I am unable to find the book here so I've been dying to see the images 'up-close'.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous - once again, thanks so much for this post!

[info]wordissuperfly

March 5 2009, 19:03:51 UTC 3 years ago

No problem! And once again, these scans are not doing the actual photos justice cuz they are too big and pretty!

[info]megidolaon

March 5 2009, 17:45:24 UTC 3 years ago

amazing

[info]decemberlungs

March 5 2009, 17:55:04 UTC 3 years ago

my favorite library:

[info]alovelyfix

March 5 2009, 18:19:47 UTC 3 years ago

Yes yes yes!

[info]welcome_ghosts

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[info]createconfusion

March 5 2009, 18:13:39 UTC 3 years ago

Oh my god these are amazing! :D

[info]alovelyfix

March 5 2009, 18:21:10 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you so much for scanning these, because this post kind of made my day (:

[info]wordissuperfly

March 5 2009, 19:04:35 UTC 3 years ago

you're kind of welcome!

[info]and__beyond

March 5 2009, 19:39:36 UTC 3 years ago

I have a folder on my computer full of library photos. I already had each of these pictures, they are so good!!!

Love love love this.

[info]i_luff_coffee

March 5 2009, 20:11:14 UTC 3 years ago

I wish my university had a sexy library like these. Perhaps then I would be more inclined to sit there all day! Thank you for this post.

[info]_viola

March 5 2009, 21:18:26 UTC 3 years ago

Fabulous post! You've absolutely made my day.

I went to Trinity in Dublin, so that one is familiar to me!

[info]onewon

March 5 2009, 22:16:52 UTC 3 years ago

Ohhhh thank you for this post.

The Trinity library is orgasmic in person.

[info]radiosuperhero

March 5 2009, 22:26:33 UTC 3 years ago

AHHMAZING. I love libraries. It is my life's dream to have a miniature version of one of those libraries in my house (complete with rolling ladder). Here are a few of my favorite libraries (mostly 20th century architecture):


Louis Kahn's Exeter Library, New Hampshire


Gunnar Asplund's Stockholm Public Library


H.H. Richardson's Thomas Crane Library, Massachusetts


SOM's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale


Tadao Ando's Library of Picture Books, Iwaki City


Patkau Architects' Grande Bibliothèque du Québec

[info]myrtilus

March 6 2009, 19:39:28 UTC 3 years ago

I totally DREAM of a rolling ladder too!!!
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