This book has the longest title ever. It is actually There Weren’t Many Girls Around, So We Dated Ideologies. This Left Us Always on the Brink of War. We Often Discussed That a Likely Result of Battle Would Have Been More Girls to Go Around Amongst the Survivors, but We Quibbled Rather Than Acted, & Slept Alone in Our Cold Beds Dreaming of Glory but it was ruining the blog format so I had to put a … I came across the work of Los Angeles artists Ami Tallman when checking out the publisher 2nd Cannons and finding this book. I love the line drawings of ornate interiors, paintings of bearded generals, and the bleeding watercolor. The colors are completely saturated and I like their surprising combinations. You can see more works of hers here and here and basically every spread in this book, an edition of only 500, here.

© Julia Rothman 2007