Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck
by Ricky Jay
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A classic small celebration and meditation on dice through theages; both brilliant and beautiful. "Jay's writing is exactly what one would expect from theextremely erudite, witty and decent author of Learned Pigs &Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. There is anexplanation of the etymology of "craps," and there are varioustales of armless dicers, ingenious hustlers, and Scandinavian kingsof the Middle Ages who diced for islands. Dice turn out to be richsubjects for Purcell's show more photography. She presents them as, in away, monumental ruins on a Stonehenge-type of scale relative to thebook. Their forms are enriched by their disintegration and arebathed in light that their varying translucence seems to containfor a moment before releasing it to the lens . . . The book itselfis, like a die, a modest object, small for a book of photographyand, with a short text, casually organized." -- Crispin Sartwell,Los Angeles Times 21 color photographs. show lessTags
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Ricky Jay was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, New York in 1948. He first performed magic in public at the age of 4. At the age of 7, he appeared on a television show called Time for Pets, plopping a guinea pig into a top hat and appearing to turn it into a chicken. He left home as a teenager and worked at Lake George and at the Electric show more Circus. He appeared in about 40 movies and television shows including House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, Redbelt, State and Main, Tomorrow Never Dies, Boogie Nights, and Deadwood. In the 1990s, he and Michael Weber founded the consulting firm Deceptive Practices. Their film-industry projects included a wheelchair that made Gary Sinise's Vietnam War-veteran character in Forrest Gump appear to be a double amputee. Jay wrote several books including Cards as Weapons, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, Celebrations of Curious Characters, and Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living. He died on November 24, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 770 — Arts & recreation Photography Photography & Computer / Digital Art
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- GV1303 .D43 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Games and amusements Indoor games and amusements Gambling. Chance and banking games
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