Walker Evans
John Hill, Bethany, Connecticut, 1999
Description
There was the classic and timeless challenge of convincing a nonvisual, traditional publisher that biography illustrations are not limited to a signature of photographs on coated paper collected and inserted mid-book. This is a book of words, pictures are secondary but important. To get maximum quality from halftones and one black on uncoated paper, we worked with the pre-press house and did some tests. Best results came from a modest screen of 150 percent and with extremely “open negatives.” This allowed the printer to run higher than normal ink levels without plugging shadow detail or altering type. Normal ink levels would be quickly absorbed by the uncoated sheet and render flat, gray photographs.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 1999
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- John Hill
- Art director
- John Hill
- Illustrator
- Jane Sargeant
- Photographers
- Walker Evans, assorted others
- Author
- James R. Mellow
- Production coordinators
- Jared Sherman, Perseus Books Group
- Trim size
- 6 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches
- Pages
- 656
- Quantity printed
- 25,000
- Compositors
- Teresa Fox, FoxPrint (Digital Imaging, Halftones, GIST)
- Typefaces
- Abobe Caslon, Big Caslon, Italics Caslon 40
- Printer
- R.R. Donnelley
- Jacket printer
- Coral Graphics
- Binding method
- Notch-case
- Binding materials
- Kennet Black No. 19990 (spine), Permalin Black Buckram (sides)
- Endpapers
- Permalin Buckram Steel
- Publisher/client
- Basic Books (Perseus Books Group)
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