About Biblio
In this extensive photo essay, Natasha D’Schommer offers an intimate look at the Scheide Library and its previously unphotographed rare manuscripts, among them Beethoven’s sketchbooks, the Gutenberg Bible, J.S. Bach Cantata No. 33, and Emily Dickinson’s chocolate recipe.
Biblio is available at www.labyrinthbooks.com and www.amazon.com.
About Natasha D’Schommer
Natasha
D'Schommer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1972. She graduated
from New England College in West Sussex, England, with a degree in
English literature, and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Vermont
College of Fine Arts. During this time, when D'Schommer was working
as a photojournalist, she began photographing the Scheide Library.
Landscape—and the landscape of the object—have been subjects of
her photography for the past 15 years.
D'Schommer is a 2005 recipient of the McKnight Photography Fellowship. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and daughter. For more about Natasha’s work, visit www.natashadschommer.com.
- Elizabeth Carpenter
Curator, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
About The Scheide Library
The
Scheide Library, privately owned by William H. Scheide, is associated
with the Princeton University Library Department of Rare Books and
Special Collections. Located in the Firestone
Library, it holds very significant collections of Bibles in manuscript
and print, including a Gutenberg Bible and a 36-line Bible; medieval
manuscripts and incunabula; printed books on travel and exploration;
Americana; and music manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Natasha D’Schommer and William Scheide
Reading Catholicon (Johannes Balbus, Augsburg, Germany 1458).
Photo by Judith McCartin Scheide.
Reviews
“Private jewel-box of a library at Princeton University.”
“...the century-spanning documents and books come to life in all their elegance and beauty. ”
Events
- The Schubert Club Museum
- Opening weekend November 20-22, 2009
Landmark Center, St.Paul, MN
www.schubert.org - Book signing at Princeton Public Library
- Friday, November 28, 2008; 2:30 – 4:30pm
65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ - Book signing at Labyrinth Books
- Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 2pm
122 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ