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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Matsumoto Incorporated (New York, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997

Description

This book contains forty-eight photographs of 1,000 Buddha sculptures in the temple of Sanju San-Gen-do, Kyoto. The book is bound to display the entire panoramic scene, and is sixty pages long.

Credits
Art director: Takaaki Matsumoto
Graphic designer: Takaaki Matsumoto
Photographer: Hiroshi Sugimoto
Author: Hiroshi Sugimoto
Editor: Atsuko Koyanagi
Typeface: Garamond
Printer: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Papers: Text: Van Nouveau 135 gsm, Aluminum Cover
Publisher/client: Sonnabend Sundell Editions/Sonnabend Gallery