There is an almost clinical sobriety to the photos in Todd Eberle's new book, "Empire of Space" (Rizzoli, $85).
I was delighted to find that Todd Eberle's new book "Empire of Space" was chock full of such wonderful visual dialogues.
"I'm not interested in decoration, but in something that takes my fancy," said Oberto Gili, a photographer, whose book "Luxury of Space" (Assouline, $70) appears in October.
Everything above, though, sidesteps one important point: making a children's book out of "Space Oddity" is a terrific idea; the song is moody, bleak, eerie, and eventually tragic, but it's also about astronauts, rockets, and protein pills kid curios all.
He has also published a number of books on space.
In his strange and mysterious book, The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard wrote: "The house shelters day-dreaming.
The book is full of space and light, but – much like the ocean – Sackville's writing is also brooding and hypnotic 10.
The book, a kind of space age "Da Vinci Code," inspired a goofy German documentary and, if memory serves, some earnest, anxious debates among sixth-grade protogeeks who shall remain nameless.
And when that book ran out of space more than four months later, on Jan . 22 the 13,486th entry was made -- "unk: fragment -- bone" -- and a second book was begun.
As the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard observed in his book "The Poetics of Space," the "virtues of shelter are so simple, so deeply rooted in our unconscious," that houses can be said to stand in for the poetic imagination itself.
