Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

The main branch (now formally called the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building) of the New York Public Library.
"The main branch of the New York Public Library — the Beaux-Arts landmark at Fifth Avenue and 42 Street with the stone lions — opened its doors to a ravenous population on May 24, 1911. More than 50,000 souls are said to have flowed through its marble grandeur, inaugurating what has been an intimate, mutually sustaining union between the public and its library. In his magnificent new documentary 'Ex Libris: The New York Public Library,' Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into those same halls as well as into more humble city branches. He sweeps into atriums and down corridors, pauses in reading and meeting rooms, and lays bare this complex, glorious organism that is the democratic ideal incarnate. ..."
NY Times: We the (Library-Card Carrying) People of ‘Ex Libris’
Vanity Fair: Frederick Wiseman on his Latest Film, Ex Libris, and His 50-Plus-Year Career
Roger Ebert
New Yorker: Frederick Wiseman’s Utopian Vision of Libraries in “Ex Libris” (Richard Brody)
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