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...artist: Guatemalan Luis Gonzáles Palma.The exhibition, “Hierarchies of Intimacy,” will run through October 25. “Intimacy” is presented as one cohesive collection, but is actually divided between small, sepia-toned images and much larger color digital prints. The Kodalite photographs of the former category, mounted on peeled gold leaf on top of bright red paper, exude a sense of intimacy. In contrast, Palma’s digital photographs feel artificial. The surrealist elements Palma is known for including in his art are integrated well in the Kodalite images...
...piece of technology enables readers to access a vast pool of texts exponentially larger than the number of books currently crowding the shelves of the Harvard Book Store, especially those titles published pre-1923, before which copyright protections are largely inapplicable. Now, the number of unavailable, out-of-print books has—at least for customers of the Harvard Book Store and the few other nationwide stores with Espresso Book Machines—significantly diminished, and many obscure books can be accessed without the labyrinth of used booksellers and the obligatory weeks of waiting and searching...
...what is perhaps most intriguing about the book machine, however, is that it is both a technological advancement and a means of increasing access to print media, which is almost never the case with the other developments in this field. In the age of the e-book and the Amazon Kindle, it is refreshing to see the actual object of the book itself revived and sustained rather than replaced and forgotten. That said, the increased access to books—especially to more seasoned titles—that the machine creates will appeal to an older generation of readers that...
...course the Harvard Book Store’s “Espresso Book Machine” is an easy thing to criticize. After all, is it a solution to the print media crisis or to the problem of reading in the information age? Hardly—no matter how innovative the machine may be, its novelty must not distract us from the goal of making more texts available online. Isn’t it flawed? Absolutely—it would be nice if arrangements could be made with authors and publishers to include copyrighted materials in its catalogue...
...Demand CEO Dane Neller said he hopes the Espresso Book Machine will revolutionize the book industry by eventually making any book available—regardless of its popularity. “We want to make sure that a book never goes out of print...