Leighann Garber’s Reviews > National Geographic Spectacle: Rare and Astonishing Photographs > Status Update

I see corporate user interfaces and AI art all day. I forget what real art looks like. The pages are cool and glossy to the touch. The images are oversized and I feel my eyes contracting and dilating to take everything in, in rich colors that sometimes hurt . It's a whole experience, and something we're not getting from screens. I'm going to start checking out "coffee table books" regularly

It feels a bit like cheating to use this as one of my books read for 2026 lol

But I am reading all the text and captions and spending time with the photos. I don't really look at big visually interesting photos these days and it's a relaxation for my mind and my eyes in a way that reading a novel is not. I really need that right now