#143: Brian Karlsson
Photographer Brian Karlsson on Slacker (1991), "Ray’s a Laugh" Photobook, "Solopsist", and more.
Cool people like cool things, which is why we asked cool person Brian Karlsson to share some recommendations on Perfectly Imperfect.
Brian Karlsson is one of my favorite New York City-based street photographers. Back in November, his photos were in a beautiful cloth-bound hardcover book of photographs for They Might Be Giants. It’s a lovely collection of photos with 10% of the net profits from all sales of BOOK through New Year's will go to The Immigrant Learning Center. Brian has great taste and lucky for us, he’s here to tell us what he’s been into.
Without further ado
Brian Karlsson (instagram, tiktok)
This is my favorite book of all time. I have read it at least once a year since I first discovered it, which was by stumbling across this quote:
“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to thin…
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