We went to the Brooklyn Art Book Fair in
September 20th. There were lots of people waiting beside the entrance
when we got there, because we arrived a little bit earlier than their open
time.
When I went into the Fair, there were a
large tabernacle in the middle of the ground, beside it is a big room. I felt
so excited that looked around in this room to search a book which is attracted
me. Most book in this room is handmade, and these books author set behind their
table. Some of them were introducing their books to the customers. Some of them
were just enjoying their handmade process. All of their handmade books are very
elegant. A lots of beautiful patterns was drew on papers. People stopped at
tables where have their interesting books. Then they devote in browsing those
books earnestly.
There were more than twenty-five rooms in
the Book Fair divided by publishers. I found a book I am interested in, called
The Whole Earth-California and the Disappearance of the outside, which has many
writers working on it in a room on second floor. The book mainly talks about
changes of the earth through many photos, paintings, and some posters. The
layout of the book sometimes has many pictures with few words, or sometimes is
words on a whole page without any pictures. From an overall perspective, the
book puts words in four parts, and between a part and another part has space
during it, which helps the article easy to read. While sometimes a big picture
will occupies two or three part even the whole page. The book on a table that
also has some other books, like one book which about travel. In fact, it is a photograph
album, because the whole book has a large picture on every page with few
descriptions under the photo.
I was enjoyable of this experience, because I am so happy that almost forgot the time. I just kept walking and looked around and searched books I am interested in. Otherwise, one thing that I realized was many books in there are picture album, and I hope that they can add some other kinds of books like movie or history at their tables.
