February 06, 2006

Dust-Jacket Photos of Writers

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"It's about math, but the writing is passionate and beautiful," Larbalestier says, "and I kept trying to reconcile the smug picture of the author with the elegance of the text."
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Ettlinger...has photographed more than 600 writers since 1983. She's aware of the incongruities of the process. "They're being photographed because of their intellect, their inner life, and here they have to do these things involving their appearance. It seems like a big contradiction," she says.

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