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Ancient manuscript with faded text in a script, featuring intricate black and red borders. The surface is worn, giving a historical, aged appearance.

Jun 24, 2024 Susan and the Traveling “Tarsh”

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“The importance of these prints derives not only from the fact that they are early witnesses to the use of printing in the Middle East, or their textual and artistic content, but also from their rarity.” - Mark Muehlhaeusler, "Eight Arabic Block Prints from the Collection of...

Oct 19, 2021 Book of the Week — The Horse in Motion

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“If one wanted to find an absolute beginning point, a creation story, for California’s two greatest transformations of the world, these experiments with horse and camera would be it." — Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows (2003) "Arrangement of the cameras for taking the illustration of the paces" The...