Reinier Gerritsen, poznati nizozemski fotograf iz Amsterdama, odlučio se na zanimljiv projekt – želio je zabilježiti putovanje knjige podzemnom željeznicom. Tako je počeo fotografirati ljude koji na svojim putovanjima posežu za knjigom. Osim što je svojim fotografijama zabilježio kulturu čitanja pod zemljom, autor je došao i do nekih zanimljivih zaključaka.
“Gerritsen was struck by the incredible diversity of books he saw in the subway system. He was also interested in observing how an individual’s choice of book was as much an expression of identity as an item of clothing. Gerritsen found the L train’s reading material especially interesting.
“The L is the most intellectual line, I think. A lot of people are going to Brooklyn. They read certain books. There is a difference,” he said.
This past spring, Gerritsen returned to New York to take a different look at the decline of printed books, this time photographing readers with their e-readers for a digital book app, The Last Book Revisited.
“I found it quite boring. If you shoot people with a book, it’s so much more interesting,” he said.”
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