“It’s Just What It Is”—A Glimpse Into Photographer Nigel Shafran’s Workbooks 1984-2024

“It’s Just What It Is”—A Glimpse Into Photographer Nigel Shafran’s Workbooks 1984-2024

Workbooks would suggest that for Shafran (non-commercial) work and life are intermingled. That’s not to say that he’s acting as a recorder or documentarian, but that in seeing his pictures we are seeing the world through his eyes. As he notes, “Everything that goes in you, either consciously or unconsciously, maybe has some effect.” The … Read more

Idea Has Been the Coolest Bookshop in the World Since 2011. Now, You Can Actually Visit It

Idea Has Been the Coolest Bookshop in the World Since 2011. Now, You Can Actually Visit It

If conventional wisdom has it that the world is now ruled by algorithms, nobody bothered to tell David Owen and Angela Hill. In the years since the couple began collecting rare vintage books and magazines in the ’90s (selling them through the late, lamented Colette in Paris and Dover Street Market in London) and launched … Read more