#bookstalls

[marypickfords]

Bookstalls (Joseph Cornell, 1938)

#bookstalls #joseph cornell #short film #experimental film #caps #books

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Men browsing the outdoor tables of a Fourth Avenue bookstore, 1959.

Photo: André Kertész via Museum of Contemporary Photography

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1950s #André Kertész #Fourth Ave. #bookstores #bookshops #used books #bookstalls #vintage bookstores

[madhushala]

my mom's college is sooo nostalgic 😭

#i used to come here as a kid #when we had a holiday but mom and dad had jobs to mom would carry me and brother here #she has her own huge department and its separated from other staff rooms #and there's a huge blackboard that students would draw on with colorful chalks its still there 😭😭 #and frames of different anatomical structures #and the kitchen inside #and menu cards prepared by students all over #she's home science and english teacher so she has it all a bit of nutrition stitching and sewing cooking medicine table manners #chemistry biology literally everything #and the students prepared files with pretty covers and id pick out all the decorations from the files when they passed out #and in practicals mom would make them prepare tastiest dishes everyone got a sweet and one savory to prepare #and mom always has craziest idea she loves cooking so you can imagine the dishes i got to taste #the glass and foil paintings are still there 😭😭🥹🥹 #and the cutlery #there are lot more wall hangings now #and the one huge center table is reduced to two small tables #and the department has got one new teacher shes so young #i mean its not so grand but ofc its grand it contains my childhood #the canteen and bookstall don't work anymore no idea why the owners abandoned them after covid #im so 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 #im meeting my school friends here then we'll go shopping

[thinkhappythxughts]

this morning i changed my name at the bank (first place my new name is legally recognised!!!), found a little queer bookshop market stall in town that i didn’t know existed, bought some nice yarn to make myself a scarf with, and then very nearly passed out from low blood sugar while on my way home. quite the rollercoaster.

#me #what a day #i’m fine now but i stood up to get the bus and my hearing and vision started fading out lol #kinda scary but i just sat down until it passed #but more importantly the queer bookstall!!!!! it was so nice and the person working there was so lovely

[terakopian]

Browsing Books. #streetphotography #dailylife #bookstall #book #hat #streetfashion #londonstyle #style #fashion #elegant #elegance #canpubphoto #southbank #shotonleica #leica #leicam10d #summicron #summicron50 #niftyfifty @leicauk @leica_camera @lightroom @apple (at South Bank London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAi3fWIF6-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#streetphotography #dailylife #bookstall #book #hat #streetfashion #londonstyle #style #fashion #elegant #elegance #canpubphoto #southbank #shotonleica #leica #leicam10d #summicron #summicron50 #niftyfifty

[bitmapbooks]

Thanks to everyone who visited our stand at the Birmingham Gaming Market 📚

See you at Kickstart 01 -UK Amiga Expo on July 1st!

https://www.amigashow.com

#bitmapbooks #book #retrogaming #retrogames #gaming #art #reading #market #bookstall

#bitmap books #art #book #gaming #retro gaming #retrogaming #bookstall

[phillipmedhurst]

OSIFU 3: FIVE YEARS AGO OSIFU WAS A LONELY WALKER; NOW WITH YOU

https://oozona.wordpress.com

Look at the calendar: today is October 31, 2013. How time flies! In 2008, Osifu published his first gatha “Chaotianmen Praise” on the internet, and it has been more than 5 years in a flash. 

Five years ago, Osifu was a lonely walker, and now with you.

Five years ago, Osifu was a lonely gardener, and now he is in full fruit.

Five years ago, Osifu was a lonely…

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#arhat #bodhisattva #bookstall #Buddhism #Confucianism #Daishou #dharma #dialectical materialism #education #formless #gatha #invisible world #Ksitigarbha #mantra #meaning #monk #pilgrim #spiritual #study #Taoism #universe #Yin-Yang

[apoemaday]

Remembering

by Rainer Maria Rilke

And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones awakening, depths opening to you.

In the dusky bookstalls old books glimmer gold and brown. You think of lands you journeyed through, of paintings and a dress once worn by a woman you never found again.

And suddenly you know: that was enough. You rise and there appears before you in all its longings and hesitations the shape of what you lived.

#poetry #rainer maria rilke #remembering #tr. anita barrows and joanna macy

[lascitasdelashoras]

Anthony Perkins browsing a bookstall on Fourth Avenue, NYC, 1958

#anthony perkins #fourth avenue #new york #libros

[random-brushstrokes]

Tavík František Šimon - Bookstalls along the Seine (1911)

#Tavík František Šimon #czech art #cityscape #paris #1910s

[ebookporn]

‘We hid our stock in case we were raided’: Scotland’s pioneering LGBTQ+ bookshop

Opened two years after the country legalised ‘homosexual acts’, Lavender Menace made a huge impact. Now it has opened a public queer books archive

by Katie Goh

It was the early 80s, and on an autumn day in Edinburgh’s New Town, a young man appeared at the top of the steep stairs that led down to the city’s gay bookshop, Lavender Menace. He had just been made redundant and wanted to donate part of his severance pay to the shop. “He gave us £50,” remembers Sigrid Nielsen, who ran the bookshop with her business partner Bob Orr. “I still wonder who he was.”

Lavender Menace bookshop was founded in 1982, two years after homosexuality between men over the age of 21 was legalised in Scotland. Although its physical presence on Forth Street only lasted for five years, the bookshop made a lasting impact on Scotland’s LGBTQ+ population. During its operation in the 1980s, Lavender Menace was one of two gay bookshops in the UK; the other was London’s Gay’s the Word. Orr and Nielsen opened Lavender Menace after Orr found success selling literature from a bookstall in the cloakroom of the gay club Fire Island, and then later from a glass cabinet in Edinburgh’s Gay Centre. “We were scattered and underground,” says Orr about Edinburgh’s LGBTQ+ community in the 1970s and 80s. “None of us came out at work. We didn’t get on with our parents. By the time the bookshop opened in 82, we knew we were taking a risk, not just financially, but socially as well, whether the neighbourhood would put up with it or not.”

Lavender Menace operated as a bookshop and a mail order service that sold LGBTQ+ literature across Scotland. Orr and Nielsen took advantage of the flourishing gay and lesbian publishing industry in North America and imported new books for UK readers. But, like Gay’s the Word, they faced trouble from customs. “We lost several thousands of stock at Glasgow’s docks that we had to pay for,” says Orr. “We would hide our stock in the shop in case we were raided like Gay’s the Word.”

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#bookstores #booksellers #lgbtq rights #librarians #literacy

[dk-thrive]

And suddenly you know: that was enough.

And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones awakening, depths opening to you. In the dusky bookstalls old books glimmer gold and brown. You think of lands you journeyed through, of paintings and a dress once worn by a woman you never found again. And suddenly you know: that was enough. You rise and there appears before you in all its longings and hesitations the shape of what you lived.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, “Remembering,” The Book of Images: Poems (North Point Press; June 1, 1994) (via Year with Rilke)

#enough #love #wait #need #want #Rainer Maria Rilke

[joeinct]

Bookstalls, Paris, Photo by Michael Kenna, 2011

#michael kenna

[thisbluespirit]

Thing I found staring at me on the local supermarket charity bookstall one day. Obviously, it looked so amazingly terrible I had to pay my 50p and take it home with me.

#henry viii: wolfman #a e moorat #reading #books #period drama #i cant remember if i posted this here when i found it #which was a few months ago now #but if not: pls admire. is it not a work of art? #lol #anyway i have now read it so will reblog with spoilery details for people who Want To Know #but don't Want To Read It #henry viii

[goannafr]

Dragon A Day 2023: DAY THIRTEEN: A Librarian

The closest we have to a librarian... I mean Greippi has a LOT of books, which she does trade and lend to other clan members. She also runs a second hand bookstall at the weekly Sunflower Field Market.

Poor Greippi has a severe case of gembond, which limits her mobility due to the effect on her joints and skin. She got into reading as a distraction, and a way to travel without having to move (since she also cannot fly, lacking wings I think because they had to be amputated).

#flight rising #dragonaday2023 #greippi #goanna's art #coatl dragons #i like drawing coatl as geckos :)

[terakopian]

Browsing Books In Style. #streetphotography #dailylife #bookstall #book #hat #streetfashion #londonstyle #style #fashion #elegant #elegance #canpubphoto #southbank #shotonleica #leica #leicam10d #summicron #summicron50 #niftyfifty @leicauk @leica_camera @lightroom @apple @leica_fotografie_international @streetphotographyinternational @streetphotographersfdn @leicasociety @leica_camera_deutschland @leica_camera_italia @leicacamerafrance (at South Bank London) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChvGbs_ofRT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#streetphotography #dailylife #bookstall #book #hat #streetfashion #londonstyle #style #fashion #elegant #elegance #canpubphoto #southbank #shotonleica #leica #leicam10d #summicron #summicron50 #niftyfifty