Book By Its Cover » NY Art Book Fair

10.4.11

This past weekend was the annual NY Art Book Fair at PS1. The place was more crowded than ever. Half of me was annoyed that I often had to look over shoulders to get a glimpse of a book, and part of me was thrilled to see so many people attending an event for art books! It was quite a hip scene, with lots of young beautiful people in their coolest clothes. The people watching was almost as fun as the book browsing. I’ve collected a bunch of photos I took around the fair which you can see below. What were your favorites booths? What did you buy? My one and only purchase (!) coming later this week.

6 Comments

10/4/11 3:53pm

Ariel wrote

I loved that red Lubok poster! I bought one of the smaller $10 black and white ones that were on the side wall. And totally agree re annoyance/amazement sentiment. I feel it every year!

10/4/11 5:06pm

Rina wrote

I’m envy!
thanks for the impression anyway :)

10/4/11 6:36pm

C wrote

Haha, I was there on Saturday and my first thought was, “This is the largest concentration of artsy hipsters I’ve ever seen in one place”… and I go to art school! There were lots of really cool books, but I also only ended up buying one, from the Gottlund Verlag booth.

10/4/11 7:48pm

Sarah wrote

I was really impressed with graphic style of the Lubok books, and the adorable redfox books!

10/7/11 4:39am

Gaelle wrote

Lubok are from the city where I live! Sweet Leipzig! Their workshop is also amazing.

05/22/12 4:06am

Prashant wrote

The pop-out book(ship with dragons on right) looks interesting :).
can u tell me the name of the book ?

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