by Wally Koval (910.2 Kov)
This fascinating book, combining exotic photography with descriptions of unusual places around the globe, first caught my eye on a display at a bookstore, and I was intrigued at the time, so I was excited to see it show up in the libraries’ collection! The concept for this book began online, as an international group of devotees started sharing photos tagged #accidentallywesanderson. The photos looked like images that could have come from the auteur film director’s stylistic palette — bright pastel shades, idiosyncratic, oddly symmetrical lines and angles, and simply beautiful in their simplistic composition and often surreal quirkiness. The book collects several hundred images, from locations on all seven continents (including Antarctica!), with intriguing descriptions of each image — sometimes lengthy and sometimes brief. The photographic reproductions are absolutely gorgeous, and will put you in the same kind of mood that watching The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums might. I’m not sure that this is a travel book of destinations you’ll want to visit on your own, but just knowing they exist brought a smile to my face. My only complaint about the book is the size of the text in the descriptions — the author and publisher have chosen to use extremely small print, which my middle-aged eyes occasionally had difficulty making out.
[ official accidentallywesanderson.com web site ]
Recommended
by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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