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The Ticknor Society - Collectors’ Roundtable
Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:00 PM
The Ticknor Society will sponsor its seventh annual collectors’ roundtable on Saturday, November 15, at 3 p.m. Three diverse collectors will share highlights from their personal book collections. The panel will be moderated by Chris Morgan, Ticknor Society vice-president and himself a past panelist.
- Vincent J. Buonanno, of Providence and Chicago, will speak about his illustrated Italian books on Renaissance and baroque Roman architecture and urbanism. Several of his books and maps were exhibited at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design two years ago. He will present a few view books of Rome from Du Perac in the 17th Century to Piranesi in the 18th Century.
- Robert Dalton Harris, an antiquarian bookseller who holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, will speak about his large collection on The Atomic Age. Its core is books and ephemera from 1945 to 1963—from the first atomic bombs to the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty–as well as much material before and after those key dates. Harris and his wife Diane De Blois are the proprietors of the bookselling firm, aGatherin’, which specializes in ephemera and manuscripts in many fields.
- Photographer Karl Baden will share his collection of fiction, poetry, and other books that re-use well-known photographs on their jackets. He will discuss the alternative history of photography they reveal, as well as issues involved in collecting out of the mainstream. Selections from Baden’s collection are now on display at the Boston Public Library in the exhibition titled “Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence and Coincidence.” Baden is on the fine arts faculty at Boston College.
