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A row of book spines can cover a parking garage, and a single novel can put a bend in a brick wall. These photographs show what artists, architects, and designers have done with real books, oversized copies, and even empty shelves.

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Community Bookshelf
Community Bookshelf: The giant book spines run along a parking garage outside Kansas City’s Central Library. The 22 spines…
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The Parthenon of Books
The Parthenon of Books: Seen from across Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, Marta Minujín’s 2017 installation takes the outline of…
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Idiom
Idiom: Matej Krén stacked about 8,000 books into this column in Prague’s Central Library. The photo shows the opening in…
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Biografía 2003
Biografía 2003: In Alicia Martín’s 2003 installation, books pour from an upper window of Madrid’s Palacio de Linares. The…
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El castillo (The Castle)
El castillo (The Castle): A copy of Franz Kafka’s The Castle sits beneath the bricks in Jorge Méndez Blake’s 2007…
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Tower of Lincoln Books
Tower of Lincoln Books: A spiral staircase wraps around this 34-foot column at the Ford’s Theatre Society’s Center for…
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The March of Democracy
The March of Democracy: Portraits and fragments of print show through the cut pages. Brian Dettmer carved the first five…
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Book Mountain
Book Mountain: Light behind the glass picks out the stepped stacks of books. MVRDV designed the library in Spijkenisse, the…
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Library at Bebelplatz
Library at Bebelplatz: A square of glass in the Berlin pavement reveals empty shelves below. Micha Ullman placed his…
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Modern Book Printing
Modern Book Printing: A silver stack of oversized books stood on Berlin’s Bebelplatz during the 2006 Walk of Ideas. The…
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Fontana dei Libri
Fontana dei Libri: Pietro Lombardi carved four books around a deer’s head for this fountain in Rome in 1927. Water runs…
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Hommage à Gutenberg
Hommage à Gutenberg: A dark slab of La Spezia marble reads as a closed book where the pale page edges meet the cover…
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Giant Books at the Bibliothèque Méjanes
Giant Books at the Bibliothèque Méjanes: A giant edition of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger stands outside the Bibliothèque…
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Nevil Shute Giant Books
Nevil Shute Giant Books: A Town Like Alice and other Nevil Shute novels line the entrance of the Alice Springs Public…
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Uraeus
Uraeus: The open lead book at the top of Anselm Kiefer’s Uraeus spreads wings 30 feet across. A snake winds up the column…
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Passage
Passage: Two walls of books rise around a narrow walkway at Pálffy Palace in Bratislava. Matej Krén used about 12,000…
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Luceros y Penumbras
Luceros y Penumbras: A tree rises from the fold of Daniel González’s giant pop-up book, made for the Los Angeles Central…

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