AFFINITIES – A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review

Inbunden bok. –– FÖRLAGSNY! –– Thames & Hudson. 2022. 368 sidor.

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An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review.
• Gathering a remarkable collection of over 500 public domain images, Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review, the book has been assembled from a vast array of sources: from manuscripts to museum catalogues, ship logs to primers on Victorian magic.
• The images are arranged in a single captivating sequence which unfurls according to a dreamlike logic, through a play of visual echoes and evolving thematic threads hatching eggs twin with early Burmese world maps, marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways, and fireworks explode beside deep-sea coral.
• At once an art book, a sourcebook, and a kaleidoscopic visual poem, Affinities is a unique and enthralling publication that will offer something different on each visit. Its playful and imaginative space invites the reader to transcend familiar categories of epoch, style, or historical theme, and to instead revel in a new world of creative possibilities played out between the images opening up new connections, ways of seeing, and forms of knowledge.

"Cultural artifacts -- just picture them! – This is one of those books that can be opened on any page and you'll be immediately intrigued by the image. it could be a page from an 1883 Japanese fireworks catalogue, a 1920 photo of two men recreating a traffic accident using miniature cars, or Vincenzo Requeno's 1779 system for signing numbers with fingers. The five hundred images are all in the public domain and originally appeared on the Public Domain Review website (and well worth a visit).
Fittingly, the first image in the book is Robert Fludd's 1617 black canvas depicting the time just before the creation of the universe. I thought the strength of the book is that it doesn't lower the tone and have historical freaks of nature pictures or gruesome human activity from the past. Every page has some thought-provoking work and luckily everything is captioned and as added extra captions with an asterisk have extended mini-essays on the back pages."

"An Aladdins cave of curiosity ... the best thing on the web" - Guardian.
"'A gold mine of fantastic images and stories" - The New York Times.

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