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(The following is a news item posted on the Raincoast Blog at http://blogs.raincoast.com it was emailed to you using the Tell A Friend feature.) Click here to read the full item: http://blogs.raincoast.com/weblog/quiet-charmer/ The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, published by Princeton Architectural Press, is a quiet charmer of a book. The book is photographic essay Albert Hastings, an eighty-five year-old man in Wales; a documentary of his rituals and routines, as recorded by his neighbour, photographer KayLynn Deveney. There is a hand-written caption under each photo, saying things like “Laundry airing” and “Listening to my radio”. A few of us here at Raincoast adored the book when we first saw some of the… ...

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