Forgot one more thing. A
Forgot one more thing. A New York Institution, Coliseum Books on Broadway (there was only one and now they lost their lease) will close on the 18th. The place was packed with New Yorkers getting a bargain. So I got some too. The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige, Wilhelm Wagenfeld: (1900-1990) and Alex Katz : A Retrospective.
(Ok, I also got the Sieff book, Jeanloup Sieff : 40 Years of Photography of which the first 20 seem best, but this one was an impulse buy...)
The Hiroshige book is quite mervelous. Two sketchbooks reprinted, with comments and more information.
The Wagenfeld book has my favorite salt (or pepper) shaker on the cover (the original 50šs version) from the max and moritz set which he designed for WMF in the 50šs and which is still available in Germany. (the salt and pepper shaker look the same, but because they are made out of glas, it does not really matter).
Alex Katz is just an american classic, somehow loved and then again ignored by the public. The two pieces which i see every day seem strikingly simple, yet are amazingly complex. I am a bit surprised that Black Pond (1989) is still available at Parkett, for not so much. It is a very nice piece.
Ok... enough. Do not want this post to be the first post of tomorrow.
Good night. Gute Nacht. Dobranoc.
