The aroma of freshly printed books is intoxicating to book lovers. Even more so the scent of art books, which use lots more ink than, say, novels do. Combine this heady experience with an autumn breeze and I, for one, am a goner. Here's an array of book events around town this month, culminating with the not-to-be-missed New York Art Book Fair on the last weekend.

Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More by Alen MacWeeney
Thursday, September 6, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23^rd Street, FL 2, NY, NY

Alen MacWeeney came to New York from Dublin at age 21 and became an assistant to Richard Avedon. He soon made a name for himself as an editorial photographer, and his work has been collected by more than 60 public institutions, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Photographs from the Irish Travellers series, along with a selection of images from his W.B. Yeats series, is on view through September 29. Free and open to the public

Photographs, left to right: Alen MacWeeney: Traveller's Wedding, 1967, courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery. Coney Island, Standing, 1942, from Lisette Model (Aperture, September 2007), copyright 1983 The Lisette Model Foundation, Inc., used with permission. Margaret Watkins, The Kitchen Sink, 1919, copyright Margaret Watkins Estate, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery.

Still Subversive: KnitKnit by Sabrina Gschwandtner
Thursday, September 13, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Green Naftali Gallery, 508 West 26^th Street, FL 8, NY, NY

Sabrina Gschwandtner will sign KnitKnit, accompanied by artists profiled in the book including Jim Drain, Cat Mazza, Teva Durham, Wenlan Chia, Joelle Hoverson, Knitta, David Gentzsch, Beryl Tsang, and Lisa Anne Auerbach. The event is hosted by Green Naftali Gallery, where an exhibition of work by Jim Drain will be on view through October 13. Gschwandtner's work was included in Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting at the Museum of Arts and Design last winter, and featured in the January 31, 2007 issue of DART. Free and open to the public

Zoe Leonard: Analogue
Thursday, September 13, 7:00 pm
192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue at 21^st Street, NY, NY

In Analogue, Zoe Leonard examines the disappearing face of twentieth-century urban life and the increasing obsolescence of non-digital photography - a disappearing life captured in a disappearing medium. The book, published by MIT Press, accompanies a major photographic project currently on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH. RSVP: 212-255-4022

Seduced by Modernity: The Photography of Margaret Watkins
Saturday, September 18, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue, FL 10, NY, NY

The first book devoted to the life and work of Canadian-born modernist photographer Margaret Watkins shows the artist's contributions to the shift from pictorialism to modernism. Active in the Clarence White school of photography, the art and advertising images she made in New York during the 1921s had a distinctly feminist point of view, transgressing boundaries of conventional high-art subject matter. RSVP: mail@robertmann.com

Zalmai, Return Afghanistan: Artist's lecture and book signing
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, NY, NY

Exiled at the age of fifteen, the Afghani photographer Zalmai returned to document his homeland. Against the backdrop of giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, Zalmai's work reminds the world of the plight and courage of millions of refugees who have returned to Afghanistan, and of their huge need for assistance in a country devastated by war and now just beginning to reconstruct itself. Presented with Human Rights Watch and Aperture Foundation. Admission: $15

The Brooklynites, in Brooklyn
Thursday, September 20, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn-born writer Anthony LaSala and photographer Seth Kushner combed every neighborhood from Greenpoint to Seagate over the course of three years and found unheralded royalty of the stripe that inspired Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, and Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. An exhibition of images from the book, as well as Brooklyn-themed work by more than 20 photographers including Alex Webb, Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, Richard Renaldi, Greg Miller, Thomas Roma, Vincent LaForet, Amanda Marsalis, Harvey Stein, and Andrea Chu, to name a few, is up at the Arena through the end of the month. Free and open to the public

The Legacy of Lisette Model
Wednesday, September 26, 7:00 pm
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12^th Street, NY, NY
In conjunction with two exhibitions of work by this influential photographer, a panel discussion moderated by WM Hunt, Hasted Hunt Gallery, will include Larry Fink, photographer and co-curator of Lisette Model and Her Successors; Ann Thomas, author of a Model monograph; photographers Gary Schneider and Rosalind Solomon. The Aperture Foundation reissue of the classic, oversized 1979 monograph, with a preface by photographer and longtime friend Berenice Abbott, will be available at the event. Please check the websites for information regarding the exhibitions. Free and open to the public

Zana Briski: Brothels
Friday, September 28, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
International Center of Photography Store, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY

Zana Briski began living in the red light district of Calcutta in the late 1990s. After building intimate relationships with the women and children of the brothel, Briski captured the stark reality around her. The result is a collection of a beautiful and raw photographs of a little seen world now published in a limited edition book. This is the original work that led Briski and Ross Kaufman to make the Academy Award-winning documentary, Born into Brothels.

The New York Art Book Fair
Friday & Saturday, September 28 - 29, 2007, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, September 30, 2007, 11am - 5pm
548 West 22^nd Street between 10^th and 11^th Avenue, NY, NY

Printed Matter, Inc. hosts the second annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogues, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 100 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers. For three days, independent publishers fill two floors of Dia Art Foundation’s former headquarters, courtesy Printed Matter, the world’s largest nonprofit organization devoted to artist’s publications. Free and open to the public