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Friday, March 18, 2011

Tom Allen

When I saw Jasper Fforde's "One of Our Thursdays is Missing" on NPR's Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list this week, I recognized the cover art immediately. Tom Allen does some really fantastic work with vintage paperbacks.


After cutting and folding the images from paperbacks, he photographs them to create stunning, and sometimes slightly eerie images. Here are some of my favorites:


And, here's a video Allen created about his work:



(Allen art via Foley Gallery )

1 comments:

bridget said...

doesn't he know that yesterday was thursday, thursday. today is friday. tomorrow is saturday. and sunday comes after that. ?

now i am going to go kill myself for that reference. and for ever having heard that song in the first place. hopefully you have not been subjected to it yet.

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