It’s cleverly fitting that Penny Wolin’s intriguing book, Guest Register, is covered in shagreen, a centuries-old sharkskin-like rawhide whose pebbly texture provides a smooth but durable surface first found in the tombs of the pharaohs in ancient E...
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Max Hirshfeld
Max Hirshfeld is an American photographer who grew up in a house full of books and music to parents who survived Auschwitz and settled in small-town Alabama. His father, a child prodigy who played piano with The Warsaw Philharmonic at the age of nine, pushed him to explore the arts with a curiosity born from generations of intellectual and artistic pursuits.