So notes the Awl.
From the piece...
But Taschen's real value is in doing other kinds of things that no one else would do—like a glorious republication of Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. The reproduction is entirely done from the hand-painted originals, and at $39.99, it's a bargain, since one of the last remaining originals went for nearly half a million dollars not long ago.
And? Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made? It is a 1112-page excavation of Kubrick's own crazy excavations, devoted to a film that was never made 40 years ago. How great is that?
Even without a dollar in my pocket, as so often happens, I find store-browsing delightful. Getting to play with the books that I'd never pay top-dollar for is like a crash course on the history of some of the most famous photographers, things you'd never get to see unless you have access to the Conde Nast archives. Treating Taschen like a browsing library works just fine.
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