Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District by Ben Katchor
Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should you feel you've wasted yet another day, you can check in for help at a local Misspent Youth Center. In The Beauty Supply District, a new twenty-four-page story, Knipl attends an evening concert and unwittingly enters the world of wholesale empathizers and chiaroscuro brokers who make the decisions critical to the production of aesthetic pleasure in all its forms -- from the shape of an olive jar to the score of a string quartet. From the Hardcover edition.Hand-Drying in America, The Jew of New York, The Beauty Supply District, and The Cardboard Valise are all cartoons by Ben Katchor. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and he received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Katchor has worked on comics for publications such as The Forward, Metropolis, and The New Yorker. Katchor is the first cartoonist to have won an Obie Award, and he has collaborated on musical theatrical pieces with composer Mark Mulcahy. His TED Talk is titled Comics of Bygone New York. Katchor works as an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375401053 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375401059 |
| Title | Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District |
| Author | Ben Katchor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2000-06-13 |
| Number of pages | 108 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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