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Description
Over eighty photographs, mainly taken between 1969 and 1976, most of them reproduced full size from the 8 x 10 studio camera prints. Design and printing choices were naturally conditioned by appropriateness to Avedon’s stark, haunting portraits.
Credits
Designer: Elizabeth Paul
Photographer: Richard Avedon
Production manager: Dorris Janowitz
Author: Richard Avedon
Size: 8.5 x 11.75 inches
Pages: 160
Quantity printed: first printing of 15,000
Price: $25.00
Typeface: Text in 10/12 Linotype Granjon
Typesetter: Hallmark Press
Printer: Rapoport Printing Corporation
Printing method: Text: sheet-fed offset lithography, Black/white illustrations: 2 impressions sheet-fed offset lithography, produced in the Stonetone process
Papers: Lustro Offset Enamel Dull, 80 lb. basis
Paper manufacturer: S.D. Warren Company
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: Sendor Bindery
Binding methods: S/535 #98 white, made by G.S.B. Fabrics Corporation; on 90 pt. binders board, Smyth sewn, flat with board in backbone
Endpapers: Alpine Opaque, white
Endpaper manufacturer: Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Endpaper supplies: Willco Papers
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
