Pictures of various libraries

This page contains pictures from various libraries that I visited. Sometimes I shot the building, sometimes the interior and on other occasions the only option was to shoot close-ups.

Let’s start the series with this picture of the reading room in the Public Library on 5th Avenue in New York.

In 2009 I was sent to a customer in Malmo, Sweden. During an evening walk I strolled past its library. It was already closed but fortunately the lights were still on.

Before there were public libraries, only rich people could afford access to a lot of books. This shot is taken in the library of the Château de Modave in Belgium. I like the reflection of the books

This book about famous people from the local region of Liège was on display in that same room.

Obviously the people that were best placed to create large private libraries were rich printers. Here is a shot from the ‘small library’ in the home of the Plantin-Moretus family in Antwerp, Belgium. A picture from their ‘large library’ can be found here.

Other collections of photographs of libraries

The web is filled with fine pictures of libraries all around the world.