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.