{"id":5445,"date":"2013-08-06T10:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=5445"},"modified":"2013-08-06T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:29:46","slug":"new-yorkphoto-district-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/new-yorkphoto-district-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Photo District News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5446\" alt=\"pdnimage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pdnimage.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"669\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdnonline.com\/features\/What-Bookstores-Buy-8704.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> What Bookstores Buy: St. Mark&#8217;s Bookshop in New York City:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/stmarksbookshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Mark\u2019s Bookshop<\/a>\u00a0has been located in Manhattan\u2019s East Village for 35 years, first on St. Mark\u2019s Place and now on 3rd Avenue. Co-owner Bob Contant, who purchases a variety of genres for the store, including photography and art books, says their customers reflect the diversity of New York City&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Consignment is also how the store handles self-published books. One recent example of a self-published photo book that was popular at St. Mark\u2019s Bookshop is\u00a0Time and Space on the Lower East Side\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brianrose.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Rose<\/a>. The book compares photos Rose made in 1980 and 2010 at specific locations on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side. The photographer himself brought it to the store to ask that they sell it. Contant notes that it\u2019s a good example of the type of photo books that do well in the store: \u201cIt\u2019s a combination of subject matter and the fact that it\u2019s sort of a historical document.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The photo and caption above is from the August print edition of PDN.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article What Bookstores Buy: St. Mark&#8217;s Bookshop in New York City: St. Mark\u2019s Bookshop\u00a0has been located in Manhattan\u2019s East Village for 35 years, first on St. Mark\u2019s Place and now on 3rd Avenue. Co-owner Bob Contant, who purchases a variety of genres for the store, including photography and art books, says their customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}