One Bookshelf Photo Each. Some 50 Came Back.
Readers were asked to send a single photograph of a bookshelf or shelves holding Classical titles. The response was a gallery of some 50 photographs from more than a dozen countries.
The request followed the organizers' recent thoughts on why physical books matter, both for personal enrichment and for communal, cultural coherence. They also acknowledged the pain of choosing just one image to convey a collection and its interests.
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Take
A shelf chosen for a single photograph is already an edited self-portrait; the interesting part is what got left off.
Pushback
Or the constraint is the point: one image forces a working collection, not a warehouse.