Photographer of Books

Reflections of a working writer and reader

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka

Thomas Allen cuts out figures from the covers and interior pages of books and sets them up in alternative compositions.

This one is called Topple.There’s more in The Georgia Review.

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