While this year's Deutsche Börse reflects the importance of the photobook in contemporary photography, one of today's most distinctive book-makers, Viviane Sassen, has been nominated for an exhibition, Umbra, held at the Nederlands Fotomuseum last summer.
His most distinctive books artfully reshuffle smaller units – short stories in Ghostwritten (1999), novellas in Cloud Atlas – in ways that let him jump playfully between tones and genres, holding the whole performance together by means of thematic linkages and Short Cuts or Pulp Fiction-like overlaps between episodes.
This week we begin reading from our Torah the book known in English as Numbers - which, in Hebrew, is named for its first distinctive word, the book of Bemidbar, the book of "In the Wilderness".
He is one of the finest and most distinctive comic book artists this country has ever turned out.
Some are largely philanthropic, like the old standby Project Gutenberg, which provides hand-keyboarded texts of English and American classics, and the distinctive Million Book Project, founded by Raj Reddy, at Carnegie Mellon University.
On Hinduism, Periyar believed that it was a religion with no distinctive sacred book (bhagawad gita), or origins, but to be an imaginary faith preaching the "superiority" of the Brahmins, the inferiority of the Shudras, and the untouchability of the Dalits (Panchamas).
Most distinctive category: Books, including a fine selection on illuminated manuscripts.
His distinctive picture books include Up and Down, Lost and Found and How to Catch a Star.
Most distinctive categories: Books, a good resource for New York history buffs (samples: "New York: Songs of the City," by Nancy J. Groce, and "The Metropolis of To-Morrow," 1929, by Hugh Ferriss).
