This text-only record is part of the interactive AIGA Design Archives where you can view more details, zoom into images and explore other works in the definitive online resource on American design.
 |
Design Category
Book design, 1996
Jacket designer
Mary Ellen O’Boyle
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
|
Philippe Tapon’s novel is about an expatriate in Paris—a farm boy from Kansas dying of AIDS—and his search for immortality through the vehicle of a book on his life, written by the author. It is also about the relationship of a writer to his subject, and the nature of authorship.
I felt the image—a photograph of a man photographing a man—was expressive of the layering of autobiographical truth and fiction, as well as the themes of memory and death, that permeate the book.