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Best Books 2013 Best Books 2013 Douglas Stockdale Best Books picks from photographer, blogger and curator Douglas Stockdale.

By Jane Fulton-Alt
Kehrer Verlag
 

In reading The Burn, I view these lyrical photographs with mixed emotions having experience the wild fires in Southern California. But for me, that is also a hallmark of a good body of work in that it can stir memories, activate the senses (I can almost smell and taste the acid, dense smoke of a wild fire), yet be visually captivating.

Best Books 2013 Best Books 2013 Erin Azouz Best Books picks from photo-eye Gallery and Bookstore Associate Erin Azouz.

By Mike Brodie
Twin Palms Publishers


Gritty, authentic and deeply inspired, A Period
of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie is by far one of my favorite photobooks of the year. Brodie’s travels across the US (by train, hitchhiking, and any other free mode of transport) document life lived on the fringe of society — but not from the typical voyeuristic perspective we would expect from a body of work like this. Brodie is, in fact, one of “them” — and for me, the book gives me what feels like a genuine glimpse into a foreign world.
By Thilde Jensen 
LENA Publications
 

Thilde Jensen’s The Canaries is an engaging,personal look at people living with Environmental Illness (EI). Jensen, alongwith her subjects, documents the struggle to maintain their health amidst extreme reactions to the chemicals surrounding us all. The photographs are exquisite, and Jensen illuminates EI by allowing us to empathize with her subjects without being heavy handed.

Best Books 2013 Best Books 2013 10x10 Photobooks Best Books picks from 10x10 Photobooks co-founders Matthew Carson, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich.
10x10 Photobooks: Matthew Carson, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich

Three people collaboratively selecting ten photobooks for a “best of 2013” list. Not an easy task. It requires a lot of discussion to see where there is overlap and where there is not. It can make for a bit of dysfunction. We started to notice that not just the process, but also many of the books on our list dealt with dysfunction in one way or another. A dysfunction that incites a discussion – much like our 10x10 practice. Here is our admittedly dysfunctional list for the best photobooks of 2013.

By Igor Samolet
Peperoni Books
 

From Russia with love comes Igor Samulet’s first book, which documents a group of Russian youngsters embarking on their damaged pursuit of happiness. be happy! is a chronicle of desperation for these Russian youths in a world that for them is spinning completely out of control. Image after image shows the mantra like repetition of their impetuous and increasingly hazardous behaviors. Not much hope. Beautifully made.

Best Books 2013 Best Books 2013 Colin Pantall Best Books picks from writer and photographer Colin Pantall.

L'amoureuse
By Anne De Gelas
Le Caillou Bleu

The most moving book of the year goes to Anne de Gelas who remembers her husband through an explanation of personal sorrow and loss (and how to overcome it). “There is never a right way to tell a child about his father's death.”

Macquenoise
By Pierre Liebaert
Le Caillou Bleu
 

Partly inspired by Les Revenants (the year's best TV series), Liebaert's pictures are complemented by an absolutely gorgeous gatefold cover design.

Best Books 2013 Best Books 2013 Martin Parr Best Books picks from photographer Martin Parr.

By Sergio Larrain
Aperture
 

What a total treat! Here we have all the classic iconic images from this wonderful photographer who died only last year. On top of that Agnes Sire has dug up many unknown Larrain’s that are as good as the ones we know and love. To supplement all of this, a most elegant design from the excellent Xavier Barral, with stunning printing. It doesn’t get much better than this. 

Best Books 2013 The Best Books of 2013 Announcing the Best Books of 2013 with out list of 30 contributors and the 26 most selected books of the year.

We are thrilled to announce this year's Best Books featuring the selections by 30 personalities from across the photo world. Each year the photo-eye staff comes together to nominate contributors who we ask to pick up to 10 books they feel were the best of the year. On the most basic level a photobook functions as a vehicle for the display of photography, but a well-executed photobook is a work of art in its own right. From binding to paper to printing, sequencing, layout and design, each element of a photobook works to create a unique reading experience, and when done well, inspires a new level of engagement.


photo-eye Gallery Photo Objects & Small Prints: David H. Gibson, Rachel Phillips & Curtis Wehrfritz David H. Gibson, Rachel Phillips & Curtis Wehrfritz discuss their work in photo-eye Gallery's Photo Objects & Small Prints exhibition.
For our third installment, we're featuring the works of three photographers in our current exhibition at photo-eye Gallery, Photo Objects & Small Prints. This week, I've asked David H. Gibson, Rachel Phillips and Curtis Wehrfritz to discuss their work in the show. Read more about the work in this show here and here and stay tuned for more next week.


David H. Gibson
Cypress Island, Village Creek, Texas
Gelatin Silver Print
David H. Gibson
"The photographs in exhibition are made in the moments before sunrise - or just after. I am drawn to the edges of ponds, lakes, and streams when the warm water interacts with cool morning air. This condition produces wispy mist, rising fog, or sometimes a blanket of fog. Atmospheric forms evolve in unexpected ways from quiet movements in the air. The tonal range is continuous, with even transitions from the very lightest areas to those of greatest contrast. The light is quiet, and the mist and fog add a comforting presence. This is where I find poetry and magic in the land."
–David H. Gibson





Merry Christmas Merry Christmas from photo-eye Best holiday wishes from photo-eye and some beautiful snow-covered images from Pentti Sammallahti.

Petrohan, Bulgaria, 2003 -- Pentti Sammallahti 

photo-eye wishes you a happy and safe holiday. We thought we'd also take this opportunity to share some timeless snow-covered images from one of our favorite gallery artists, Pentti Sammallahti. Enjoy!


Lying Awake. By Geert Goiris. Roma Publications, 2013.
 
This week's book of the week pick comes from photographer and writer Adam Bell who selected Lying Awake by Geert Goiris published by Roma Publications.


Book Review New Topographics Reviewed by Tom Leininger When the catalog for the New Topographics show was first published in 1975 it was a small thin book with a softcover and sold for $7, which was considered high at the time. A press run of 2,500 copies meant that the book would be scarce. The new edition, published by Steidl is larger and imposing, much like the legacy of this show.

New Topographics. Text by Britt Salvesen, Alison Nordström.
 Steidl & Partners, 2013.
 
New Topographics
Reviewed by Tom Leininger 

New Topographics
Text by Britt Salvesen, Alison Nordström.
Steidl & Partners, 2013. Hardbound. 256 pp., Illustrated throughout, 11-3/4x9-1/2".

When the catalog for the New Topographics show was first published in 1975 it was a small thin book with a softcover and sold for $7, which was considered high at the time. A press run of 2,500 copies meant that the book would be scarce. The new edition, published by Steidl is larger and imposing, much like the legacy of this show.


Bestsellers photo-eye's Top-10 Bestsellers of 2013 Our ten best-selling titles of the year.



1. Across the Ravaged Land
Photographs by Nick Brandt
Abrams, 2013

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Book Review May the Road Rise to Meet You By Sara Macel Reviewed by Christopher J Johnson Sara Macel's book, May the Road Rise to Meet You, takes on the role of traveling salesmen and the plastic and interchangeable settings of their lives. Macel followed the movements of three different salesmen as they made their various journeys, giving us their view; airports, hotel rooms, sales meetings and ever-changing rental cars.

May the Road Rise to Meet You. By Sara Macel.
 Daylight Books, 2013.
 
May the Road Rise to Meet You
Reviewed by Christopher J Johnson

May the Road Rise to Meet You
Photographs by Sara Macel
Daylight Books, 2013. Hardbound. 84 pp., 50 color illustrations, 10x9".

Sara Macel's book, May the Road Rise to Meet You, takes on the role of traveling salesmen and the plastic and interchangeable settings of their lives. Macel followed the movements of three different salesmen as they made their various journeys, giving us their view; airports, hotel rooms, sales meetings and ever-changing rental cars. The book is of a variety of themed books that run through a documentary style narrative, often employing the use of ephemera (letters, notes, photographs of older photographs) that is becoming more and more popular in art books. I am a huge fan of this approach.

Punks by Karen Knorr & Olivier Richon. Gost Books, 2013.
 
This week's book of the week pick comes from photographer Clare Strand who selected Punks by Olivier Richon and Karen Knorr.

"The book I have chosen is Punks by Olivier Richon and Karen Knorr. I have chosen this book as its subject seems so unlikely from these two authors. I have also chosen it because of the beautiful production by GOST Books and, like every great book, it smells good too.

This week, we're highlighting the works of three photographers included in our current exhibition at photo-eye Gallery, Photo Objects & Small Prints: Linda Connor's beautiful archival print on silk; Jo Whaley's exquisite, colorful botanical studies; and Ryan Zoghlin's whimsical orotone and silvertone photographs of hot air balloons printed on glass lenses of various sizes.


Linda Connor
O'hia, Hawaii, 1997
Archival Print on Silk, 60x40" Edition of 5



Linda Connor
"I first thought about doing my photographs on silk a number of years ago when I had the opportunity to have a show in Bali. The idea of sending large framed pieces to Indonesia was out of the question, and generally works on paper do poorly there due to the humidity. So, I experimented with images on silk, which I feel works very well with certain images of mine." –Linda Connor





Book Review Every Day Was Overcast By Paul Kwiatkowski Reviewed by Blake Andrews There's a reason most novels don't contain photographs, and that's because novels are fictional while photographs represent the real world. OK, I admit it's not quite as simple as that. But in literature that basic equation still explains a lot. Why are there no photographs of Hester Prynne, Moby Dick or Peter Pan? Because they are invented characters. They can't sit in front of a camera. In fact if a photograph of any of those creatures had accompanied the original novels they appeared in, their interpretation and legacy would be completely altered.

And Every Day Was Overcast. By Paul Kwiatkowski.
 Black Balloon Publishing, 2013.
 
And Every Day Was Overcast
Reviewed by Blake Andrews

And Every Day Was Overcast
By Paul Kwiatkowski.
Black Balloon Publishing, 2013. Softcover. 280 pp., illustrated throughout, 9-1/2x8".


There's a reason most novels don't contain photographs, and that's because novels are fictional while photographs represent the real world.


Nudes/Human Form Newsletter Nudes/Human Form Newsletter Vol. 5 photo-eye's Nudes/Human Form Newsletter features books that explore the human form in a variety of ways. Today we feature books from Maja Forsslund, Chad States and Eric Kellerman.
photo-eye's Nudes/Human Form Newsletter features books that explore the human form in a variety of ways. Past editions can be found here.


Maja Forsslund stages nude and semi-nude portraits in her debut monograph AKT, paying mind to the fleeting moments of unposed beauty she finds in her subjects as they sit for her camera. Forsslund's technique elevates the work from traditional portraiture to document the encounter between her and her subject. The portraits range from classical studio settings to intimate, un-posed glimpses of her subjects during the portrait sessions, exposing them with a compassionate eye.






Book Review So Far By Sonja Braas Reviewed by David Ondrik So Far is Sonja Braas' second book, following 2004's Forces. It is a survey of selected images from four different series: The Passage, The Quiet of Dissolution, Forces, and You Are Here. Braas uses photography to make her art, but not in the way that currently overflows digital services like Flickr and Instagram. Instead, most of the photographs are made from carefully constructed models of landscapes that recall 19th century Romantic paintings.

So Far. By Sonja Braas.
 Hatje Cantz, 2013.
 
So Far
Reviewed by David Ondrik

So Far
Photographs by Sonja Braas.
Hatje Cantz, 2013. Hardbound. 122 pp., 97 color illustrations, 11-3/4x10-1/2".


So Far is Sonja Braas' second book, following 2004's Forces. It is a survey of selected images from four different series: The Passage, The Quiet of Dissolution, Forces, and You Are Here. Braas uses photography to make her art, but not in the way that currently overflows digital services like Flickr and Instagram. Instead, most of the photographs are made from carefully constructed models of landscapes that recall 19th century Romantic paintings. I see more in common with Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Mallord William Turner than I do William Eggleston or even other constructed-reality photographers like Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson.

Across the Ravaged Land by Nick Brandt. Abrams, 2013.
 
This week's Book of the Week is from curator and writer Elizabeth Avedon who has selected the final book of Nick Brandt's trilogy on the animals of eastern Africa, Across the Ravaged Land.

"'Dedicated to the billions of animals, past, present, and future, that have died without reason at the hands of man.' –Nick Brandt

The iconic image of a majestic lion before a storm, a cheetah and her cubs lying on a rock in the Serengeti, a herd of elephants on the move... from the first time I viewed Nick Brandt's heroic portraits of wildlife, I could feel the enormous power of his subjects through his images. Brandt brought out not only the impressive beauty of these imposing animals, but the dignity and reverence of their surroundings.

Opening to some great feedback, Photo Objects & Small Prints is currently on view at photo-eye Gallery. The exhibition includes work from twenty-one different artists, including two jewelers, all working in the photographic medium in unique and interesting ways. Over the course of the exhibition, we are going to highlight the work of two to three artists every week. Each artist will offer some words about their piece(s) included in the show.  –Erin Azouz

Laurie Tümer
Laurie Tümer
Left: Laurie as Desert Bird of Paradise, 7"x10"
Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 20
Right: Works on Rock, Various sizes
Each rock is unique
"Works on Rock, silver prints on rock surfaces were inspired after a trek to a remote area in north Africa to see the legendary rock art of the Tassili. My rock surfaces were coated with light sensitive chemistry and processed like paper in the darkroom. The round rocks are from a single negative of me. The botanicals (from my garden) on pavers are photograms. I no longer make these, and what you see are the last of hundreds made over a 10 year period.


Book Review Tractor Boys By Martin Bogren Reviewed by Tom Leininger Martin Brogen shows that no matter the country, rural young men like driving fast. Bogren puts the reader in the passenger seat with a group of people on the edge of adulthood, doing burnouts in isolated rural areas in Sweden. Grey light mixes with burning tires and photographic grain to create atmospheric pictures.

Tractor Boys. By Martin Bogren.
 Dewi Lewis, 2013.
 
Tractor Boys
Reviewed by Tom Leininger

Tractor Boys
Photographs by Martin Bogren
Dewi Lewis, 2013. Hardbound. 60 pp., 39 duotone illustrations, 7-1/2x9-3/4".


Martin Brogen shows that no matter the country, rural young men like driving fast. Bogren puts the reader in the passenger seat with a group of people on the edge of adulthood, doing burnouts in isolated rural areas in Sweden. Grey light mixes with burning tires and photographic grain to create atmospheric pictures.

Forgottonia by Bruce Morton, (No) Soy de Aqui by Gustavo Aleman and Cadets by Ellen Kok

Forgottonia by Bruce Morton documents the cycles of life in rural Illinois. Mixing black & white and color photographs to develop the narrative, Morton photographs the idiosyncrasies of the people and places that comprise what he describes as a "forgotten land."


Book Review The Canaries By Thilde Jensen Reviewed by Adam Bell Illness can loom heavy and large, arriving slowly, infiltrating our lives and penetrating our every step. Or it can arrive abrupt and cold - a quick flash and it's here, clutching us closely. Todd Haynes' film Safe (1995) arrived quietly but left a haunting impression. One of its concluding shots shows Julianne Moore cautiously walking across a desert landscape in a white protective suit. Strangely calming yet also terrifying, the movie follows Moore's character as her body slowly rebelled against the chemically laced world that surrounds us, interrupting her peaceful suburban life and driving her to the desert, far from her life and family.

The Canaries. By Thilde Jensen. LENA Publications, 2013.
 
The Canaries
Reviewed by Adam Bell

The Canaries
Photographs by Thilde Jensen.
LENA Publications, 2013. Hardbound. 156 pp., 71 color illustrations and 4 inserts.


Illness can loom heavy and large, arriving slowly, infiltrating our lives and penetrating our every step. Or it can arrive abrupt and cold - a quick flash and it's here, clutching us closely. Todd Haynes' film Safe (1995) arrived quietly but left a haunting impression. One of its concluding shots shows Julianne Moore cautiously walking across a desert landscape in a white protective suit. Strangely calming yet also terrifying, the movie follows Moore's character as her body slowly rebelled against the chemically laced world that surrounds us, interrupting her peaceful suburban life and driving her to the desert, far from her life and family. A literal and allegorical nightmare, the movie was hard to shake. Close to twenty-years later, Haynes' prescient movie is a startling warning about our chemical world. The pure products of American are not only crazy, but they've caused our bodies to riot. Most of us may be inured to the toxic web that surrounds us, but many are far from immune.

Disko by Andrew Miksys. Arok Books, 2013.
 
This week's Book of the Week comes from photographer, publisher and Light Work director Shane Lavalette who has selected Disko by Andrew Miksys.

"Photographer Andrew Miksys explores a unique nightclub culture in his new book DISKO, a culmination of ten years photographing Soviet-era village discos in Lithuania. As the youth of these towns move to cities or leave for Western Europe and America, these unique clubs are slowly fading. Many of the discos are barely attended, with just a few teenagers getting drunk late into the night, seeking something, or someone, to hold on to in a place with little opportunity. The greasy, colorful corners, bloodstains, and dark smoky slow dances are made beautiful through Miksys’ lens, yet together the photographs in DISKO reveal a feeling of hopelessness, and the palpable uncertainty in the eyes of a new generation." — Shane Lavalette


Exhibition runs Friday, December 6th through January 2014.
Opening & Artist Reception Friday, December 6th, 5-7 pm
photo-eye Gallery is located at 376-A Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501


photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographic objects and small prints from a wide range of artists working with photography in a variety of ways. We are also pleased to partner with Mary Anne Redding to present REDD: a pop-up experience with 2 contemporary art jewelers engaging with the photographic medium.

Kurt Caviezel

We’re pleased to announce the opening of Fear & Loathing, the inaugural exhibit in the Art Photo Index (API) online exhibition series curated by well-known professionals from within the art photography community and drawn from API’s extraordinary cache of images.

Created by Katherine Ware, curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, Fear & Loathing includes 117 works by 94 photographers from 14 countries. Ware chose this varied range of images by extensively exploring API and selecting work directly from the site, as well as from submissions from the artists. The exhibition ranges from the horrific to the humorous, highlighting commonplace fears as well as worrisome world issues. “Combing through API for images is addictive and I found some startling images that I didn’t know about,” Ware said. "I tried to assemble a variety of pictures from the site into a fresh and unexpected context. I hope the selection and layout will offer an intriguing journey for viewers.”

Asger Carlsen                                                                     Keith Johnson

Rixon Reed, founder of Art Photo Index writes, “We are honored to have our first online show curated by Ms. Ware and we’re delighted to see how a curator can use the API resource creatively. To deal with the complexity of the show, our technical team worked hard to create an exhibition experience that is intuitive to use, appropriate to the work and scalable for any size screen, allowing for a combination of images and texts that can be flexible to fit each future project. ”

Art Photo Index is a visual resource of internationally acclaimed art photographers and their work. Over 3,300 artists from 48 countries are included in the index, along with artist profiles, website screenshots and nearly 19,000 images. It is a unique searchable index to contemporary photography.


Book Review Pierdom By Simon Roberts Reviewed by Karen Jenkins Born of the Victorian invention of a holiday by the sea, the British pleasure pier has been for a century and a half both conveyance and destination, fixed landmark and mutable emblem. They sprang up from the exuberance of their day, through cast iron and steam trains – a promenade's stretch with bandstands and fun fairs. Their story follows the popular whim, as well as the effects of time and the elements. Simon Roberts has systematically photographed those fifty-eight pleasure piers that still stand today, after their heyday has waned, interested in what part they play in contemporary English leisure.

Pierdom. By Simon Roberts. Dewi Lewis, 2013.
 
Pierdom
Reviewed by Karen Jenkins

Pierdom
Photographs by Simon Roberts.
Dewi Lewis, 2013. Hardbound. 160 pp., 81 color illustrations, 9-1/2x12".


Born of the Victorian invention of a holiday by the sea, the British pleasure pier has been for a century and a half both conveyance and destination, fixed landmark and mutable emblem. They sprang up from the exuberance of their day, through cast iron and steam trains – a promenade's stretch with bandstands and fun fairs. Their story follows the popular whim, as well as the effects of time and the elements. Simon Roberts has systematically photographed those fifty-eight pleasure piers that still stand today, after their heyday has waned, interested in what part they play in contemporary English leisure. There is no intimate mix with the populace here; as in his We English project, Roberts takes a broad, collective view to get at this aspect of his nationalistic identity. He pulls back (and often up) to create his signature expansive landscapes, classical enough in their formal tropes to render his human players almost anachronistic.


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We wrap up our photobook gift guide with a selection of wonderful titles all under $25. Read parts III and III.

 
Dangerous Women by Melissa Catanese -- $18
Dangerous Women is a love note to all the strong, beautiful and defiant women who came before us and existed in a time when the world at large expected them to fit into restrictive roles. Assembled by Melissa Catanese from the vernacular photographic collection of Peter J. Cohen, the book presents a series of vintage photographs of women being, well, bad-asses. Dancing, smoking cigarettes, shooting guns and arrows, dressed in men's clothing, the women shown in these early 20th century photographs pay no heed to social pressures of traditional femininity and are having a great time doing so. If that wasn't enough, each book also includes a 3x4.25 inch print of a photograph in the book making it both completely delightful and surprisingly only $18.

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The Question of Hope by Robert Adams -- $20
The Question of Hope is a new monograph from Robert Adams featuring two bodies of work that may perhaps at first seem unrelated. The first photographic series looks into the destruction of the landscape at the hands of mankind -- images of widespread and horrific deforestation, images resembling a war zone. They are followed by a series that is decidedly more tranquil -- photographs of the coast, ocean, sky and sand. The combination of these bodies of work speaks to Adams' dual fascination with the breathtaking and restorative beauty of the natural world, and our on-going failure to be proper caretakers of it, a dichotomy that charges the images with power and urgency. Copies from our first shipment of The Question of Hope are nearly sold out but more are already on the way, and it's an absolute steal at just $20.

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The Mushroom Picker by David Robinson -- $25
David Robinson's The Mushroom Picker is technically a children's storybook, but the eerie and psychedelically-colored photograms that make up its illustrations will appeal to all ages. Robinson's book tells the story of Penny Bun, a delectable wild mushroom who attempts to flea the forest before she is snatched up by the giant mushroom picker. The story is charming, but the real stars are Robinson's inventive images, created by arranging a variety of mushrooms on the surface of his enlarger. A night-time luminescent world made entirely out of fungi comes to life in the pages of this book, painted in light with beautifully rich hues. The book finishes with botanical information on its cast of mushroom characters for pickers who may find them irresistible.

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2014 Michael Kenna Wall Calendar -- $25
A yearly tradition for many photo-eye customers, the 2014 Michael Kenna wall calendar also makes a wonderful gift for nearly anyone on your shopping list. Publisher Nazreali Press brings the same care brought to Kenna monographs, printing the calendar on uncoated natural Japanese paper using "Daido black" ink, the thirteen-image 14x18 inch calendar provides enjoyment throughout the year. Images selected for this year's calendar are centered mostly in Asia, with photographs taken in Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, and a few images from France and Easter Island.

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Driven Snow & Everyone I Never Knew by Andy Mattern -- $20 each
Because it's hard to pick just one, we finish with two small self-published books by Andy Mattern -- Driven Snow and Everyone I Never Knew. Each book focuses on an often overlooked but none the less visual staple of winter -- in Driven Snow, the misshapen, grime-encrusted clods of snow and ice that form in the wheel wells of cars, and in Everyone I Never Knew, the lost single gloves and mittens that turn up on side walks and snow banks. Mattern collected the snow clods in Driven Snow over the course of one of the snowiest winters on record. He presents its subjects with scientific-like precision, photographed on a white background with notations indicating dimensions, daily mean temperature and snow depth and noting that these images are reproduced at 17% scale.








 
The orphaned hand wear featured in Everyone I Never Knew are presented like portraits in a family album, each image reproduced in photo corners. Gloves and mittens appear freshly dropped and partially trampled, some having been placed on fence posts and in trees by a caring passer-by in hope of being reunited with their owner. Everyone I Never Knew captures the strange empathy we can feel for these items, and a bit of the silliness of how easily we anthropomorphize them. Everyone I Never Knew comes with a small print of one of the items lost in the winter snow. Each book is great on its own but they also make a lovely pair.

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