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JULIUS FRIEDMAN is a graphic designer, photographer and artist specializing in cultural, nonprofit, and corporate design. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; the National Museum of Poster Art, Warsaw, Poland; The Dansk Plakamuseum, Aarhous, Denmark; The Brown-Forman Corporation; 21C Museum; PNC Bank; and NTS Corporation.

PICO IYER is the author of two novels and eight works of nonfiction, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul and, most recently, The Man Within My Head. An essayist for Time since 1986, he publishes regularly in the New York Review of Books and the New York Times.

JILL GAGE is Reference Librarian and Bibliographer of British History and Literature at the Newberry Library, where she has worked since 2004. She holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and a PhD in English Literature (University of London). She has published on a variety of topics, including the 1470 edition of Eusebius's De Evangelica Praeparatione printed by Nicolas Jenson; eighteenth-century English schoolboy writers; and nineteenth-century extra-illustrated books.

DIANNE APRILE is an editor and writer of essays and books, including The Eye is Not Enough, a collaboration with visual artist Mary Lou Hess. A former journalist and jazz-club owner, she teaches creative nonfiction at Spalding University's brief-residency MFA on Writing Program.

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"In this gorgeous full-color photo collection, artist Friedman (Images and Ideas) pays tribute to the book as a physical object. After a short foreword by author Pico Iyer and an equally brief introduction by librarian and bibliographer Jill Gage, Friedman leaps into a series of startling images. Friedman's images are surprising perhaps because readers tend to value books for the images they create in our minds, not as a moldable physical material. Friedman's photographs, however, turn that logic on its head by transforming books beyond recognition. He captures pages rippling like ocean waves, books folded into bird shapes that appear to fly, and decaying books that crumble, melt, and collapse into one another. In this detailed exploration of ancient and historical books, Friedman's only real flaw is that he provides little information or context for individual images; bibliophiles would have appreciated knowing about the history behind some of these literary treasures."--Publishers Weekly

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