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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Lausten Cossutta Design (Los Angeles, California)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997
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A book designed to bring to a broad audience the work of Chuck Close and the artists he painted. To do this, each artist’s conversation opens with a visual narrative of full-bleed black-and-white photos showing both the artist and his or her work. These photo-narratives are intended to show connections between the artist’s life and work that might otherwise be overlooked. A limited printing budget guided decisions such as the jacketless cover, the 28-page color frontispiece that opens the book, the documentary-like black-and-white body of the book, and the lightweight paper.