Reinier Gerritsen: The Last Book

Author and technologist Nicholas Negroponte has declared that printed books are in danger of disappearing. This is the premise of “The Last Book”, the latest body of work by photographer Reinier Gerritsen. Gerritsen has taken up the current plethora of books and their readers on New York Citys subways as an indicator of the still robust nature of public readership, in the face of its ostensible decline. The work began for Gerritsen as a series of modest observations, and has turned into a series of unexpected, documentary portraits, set against a visual landscape of best sellers, classics, romance novels, detective thrillers, Bibles, biographies, and other printed books.