French photographer Thibaud Poirier is behind a magnificent series, entitled Librairies, highlighting Europeans libraries. From Roma to Dublin including the Sorbonne in Paris and Berlin, the artist takes us in these reading temples build in several times. He chose to photograph them as empty of readers.
Trinity College Library, Dublin, 1732
Palàcio Nacional de Mafra, Mafra, 1755
El Ateneo, Buenos Aires, 1919
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Salle Labrouste, Paris, 1868
Bibliothèque de l’Hotel de Ville de Paris, Paris, 1890
Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, 1701
Grimm Zentrum Library, Berlin, 2009
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, 1850
Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, 1728
Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart, 2011
Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Salle Jacqueline de Romilly, Paris, 1897
