Speck by Peter Buchanan-Smith

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Speck by Peter Buchanan-Smith

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Speck by Peter Buchanan-Smith

In Speck, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Art Director of the New York Times Op-Ed page, asks artists, designers, lawyers, writers, collectors, and photographers to explore our obsessions with the small objects that loom large in our everyday lives.To wit: Maira Kalman empties people's pocketbooks; Nicholas Blechman and Jesse Gordon trace the history of the oldest piece of dust; David Horrowitz catalogs manhole covers; and Peter Buchanan-Smith unearths a 1966 high school yearbook and transcribes the inscriptions (To a real sweet and cute guy with a great personality. Remember English I).Speck also shows how ordinary people can fascinate as much as ordinary objects: an interview with shoe shiner Harry Kitt, Manhattan's last practitioner of the dry-shine, photographs taken by a blind man on a sight-seeing tour, and a barber's extensive collection of earth, water, and air from around the world ask us to re-think our assumptions about the commonplace.

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ISBN 13 9781568982977
ISBN 10 1568982976
Title Speck
Author Peter Buchanan-Smith
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Year published 2001-12-01
Number of pages 215
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.