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Images => Themes, Portfolio Series, PaW, or PaM => Topic started by: Jakov Minić on February 08, 2016, 14:57:48
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When I first visited Erik in CPH back in 2009, he took me to this library which I found the most beautiful library I have ever seen in my life.
Then we found out that it was being dismantled due to lack of financing and that it was supposed to become a student home.
Saddened people were removing books from the bookshelves and I had tears in my eyes just like the librarian telling us the sad story.
Books, libraries, and book shops are slowly but surely becoming things of the past whether we like it or not.
This thread might turn out to be historic...
Do share us your books!
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This is a wonderful idea to start a series on books and libraries. Thank you Jakov.
First shot above is so cool. It looks like a reflection on water to me. :)
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Thank you Anirban :)
Here is another beautiful library in CPH.
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One of the many outlets of the main public library of Oslo. Very Scandinavian touch of the interior.
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From the Trinity College Library, Dublin.
(Nikon 1 AW1, 6.7-13 mm lens)
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A female librarian greeting me with a stack of books and a warm smile. National Library, Oslo.
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Jakov. I hope you are not right. I very much hope that some book shops and libraries are destined to survive.
My wife lost her job in Bonns biggest and oldest bookstore when it closed in 2013. Sad story.
Libraries are still necessary esp in Unniversity cities like Bonn. We have 40.000 students here annd they just put
millions into renovating the main library. Time to take some pictures there after redecoration.
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Not everyone goes to library to read. ;)
Hennepin County Library, Uptown Minneapolis.
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Beautiful shots of the CPH libraries, which I'm not familiar with. Considering I'm danish, I'm quite unfamiliar with our capital. Likely because I've never lived or stayed there for long. The only CPH library I'm familiar with is "Den sorte diamant".
We got a new library called Dokk1 on the harbour here in Aarhus not too long ago. It's much more than just a library, it's a great place for kids to have fun too and it's quickly become a very popular place. A couple of snaps that really don't do it justice:
#1 Dokk1 in reflection
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1566/25515829551_1144ca51df_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ESKiaH)
Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/ESKiaH) by Joergen Ramskov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jramskov/), on Flickr
#2
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1549/25489898332_081c137471_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EQsoHJ)
Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/EQsoHJ) by Joergen Ramskov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jramskov/), on Flickr
#3
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1707/24981802823_5061474d77_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/E4ygCk)
Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/E4ygCk) by Joergen Ramskov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jramskov/), on Flickr
#4
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1641/24981825113_98bfe69e41_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/E4yofD)
Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/E4yofD) by Joergen Ramskov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jramskov/), on Flickr
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Jakov. I hope you are not right. I very much hope that some book shops and libraries are destined to survive.
My wife lost her job in Bonns biggest and oldest bookstore when it closed in 2013. Sad story.
Libraries are still necessary esp in Unniversity cities like Bonn. We have 40.000 students here annd they just put
millions into renovating the main library. Time to take some pictures there after redecoration.
Frank, I heard that Edition Schott was selling Beethoven's manuscripts to support the company. Fortunately, the whole library was bought by Bärenreiter and kept in Germany, if I remember correctly.
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In a kids' play-area.
D200, 50mm 1.8D.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1636/25415025524_2442648e6d_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EHQDDf)
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A female librarian greeting me with a stack of books and a warm smile. National Library, Oslo.
Your Magenta is burning.....which is understandable under the circumstances 8)
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My local library have changed from a cellar with a few books when I was a kid, to a +100 million dollar building last year. The books are the same, but the ruling politicians got their "monument". At least, the lighting is ok.
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Your Magenta is burning.....which is understandable under the circumstances 8)
Negative colour film scan. W/b was difficult those days. And yes, she was amiable and the lighting in her ecosystem horrible.
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London V&A Library........
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Duke_1/_DSC8427%201_zpss4sa9sro.jpg)
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One of my favourite libraries is the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England. When he died, his wife had it built to his memory, it is now part of Manchester University.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/ajdh/JohnRyland/BetterPics/3SA_2695_1050h_zpsuapjfm4v.jpg)
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I always had a sense of importance when entering these old libraries.
The feeling is similar as entering a church. Probably the architecture has something to do with it.
I remember when I was studying how libraries were full of people. It seems that the trends are different nowadays unfortunately.
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I always had a sense of importance when entering these old libraries.
The feeling is similar as entering a church. Probably the architecture has something to do with it.
I remember when I was studying how libraries were full of people. It seems that the trends are different nowadays unfortunately.
The alcoves get used quite a bit but on Saturdays, if the weather is bad, the place gets full of tourists.
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One day when I grow up - and find a library to shoot.
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The library and bookshop at the De Pont Museum
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The new library in the LocHal, and old Train Maintenance Factory.
(https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9231.0;attach=43208;image)
(https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8986.0;attach=42051;image)
(https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8075.0;attach=41010;image)
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Great shots, John. The exterior shot is beautifully done.
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Great shots, John. The exterior shot is beautifully done.
Thanks Keith.
Forgot to mention these were a selection posted earlier in Daily.
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Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin in July this year. I was in Dublin for a conference and it was the first international travel since the pandemic. D700 with Nikkor-UD 20mm 3.5
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Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin in July this year.
What a lovely find adliwahid
This place feels like another "Church of the mind"
After a long period of travel restrictions, you certainly made the most of your freedom!
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What a lovely find adliwahid
This place feels like another "Church of the mind"
After a long period of travel restrictions, you certainly made the most of your freedom!
Thanks Colin! It was definitely great to be out and about with the camera again. I got the 20mm during the lockdown and hadn't been able to use it much. :D
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Libreria Lello, a bookshop in Porto
(http://hannu.mallat.fi/travel2/porto-08/porto/_DSC6411.jpg)
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Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Rio de Janeiro
(http://hannu.mallat.fi/travel2/rio13/DSC_5174.jpg)
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Something more modern -- Grimm-Zentrum, Berlin
(http://hannu.mallat.fi/travel2/berlin11/_DSC6670.jpg)