Walker Evans
Walker Evans
Walker Evans

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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