Everyone knows all the cool girls are really bookworms—what they don’t know is what all the cool bookworms are reading. You will now though; just follow along with this series as Pop-In@Nordstrom Welcomes Warby Parker helps us celebrate the literary life well lived.
There are photographers who document the world, and there are photographers who create worlds to document. New York-based lens pro Olivia Locher has a foot on both planets—and what a foot it is. (Her super charming DIY shoes caught our eye at the Jason Wu show at fall fashion week in New York.) At work for entities such as W magazine, she captures the drama and excitement of the backstage build-up at the shows, and while at work unraveling her own narratives and concepts, she stages series such as “I Fought the Law,” in which her subjects enact the fine art of breaking totally inane American rules from coast to coast. Exhibit A: “In Texas it is illegal for children to have unusual haircuts.” Huh? Yeah.
Here she is repping some Warby Parker sunnies, and here she is schooling us on texts of conceptual photography and ’70s ennui.
This is one of my all time favorite books. It’s one I find myself revisiting every summer. The story is incredibly captivating. It’s set during the ’70s in suburbia and reflects on five young beautiful sisters who are guarded by overprotective parents. The story is interesting because it’s told by a narrator who happens to be a group of adolescent neighbor boys who obsess over the girls from a distance. They try to piece everything together to get a picture of the girls’ story. Sofia Coppola’s movie is what encouraged me to read Eugenide’s book many years ago and I’m so happy I did. Both the book and film are very dear to me.
I owned this book for a few years but I’ve just started reading it. Several photographers were asked to write essays describing a situation where they regret not making a photograph. They describe the situation and completely hash out their idea, in result the photograph was taken conceptually though the essay. It’s a beautiful way to get a glimpse into the different photographer’s minds and practices. I’d recommend it to anyone who has an interest in photography.
Another book I constantly find myself revisiting is Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems. It makes me long for a New York I know I’ll never understand or experience, unless someone invents a time machine.
I’ve just started reading and am very much enjoying Barney and Beuys’ book. It examines similarities between the two mens work and practices. The links drawn between the different bodies of work is fascinating, and I’ve found a lot of the information here that isn’t available from other sources.
A book I’m looking forward to reading this summer is edited by Sheila Heti and other female editors, Women in Clothes. It’s a conversation among women of all walks of life about the subject of clothing. Some of the women include Kim Gordon, Cinder Sherman, Molly Ringwald. I’m really excited to dig into it.
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