The Darkness and the Light, Photographs by Doris Ulmann
Jane Byers Bierhorst, Millerton, New York, 1974
Description
In photographing the black people from the Lang Syne Plantation in South Carolina, Doris Ulmann documents her respect for life lived close to the soil, for a people confronting the forces of nature and the supernatural with fortitude, human warmth and community. The text, A New Heaven and a New Earth, was specially written for this volume by Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Coles.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1975)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Jane Byers Bierhorst
- Photographer
- Doris Ulmann
- Production manager
- Steven Baron
- Authors
- William Clift (preface), Robert Coles (text)
- Size
- 9 x 10.5 inches
- Pages
- 122
- Quantity printed
- edition of 15,000
- Price
- $12.50
- Typeface
- Linotype Palatino, 10/14 with display in foundry Palatino
- Typesetter
- American Can Company, Printing Division
- Printer
- A. Colish, Inc.
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset, duotone
- Paper
- Caress (Monadnock), 80 lb., Natural White
- Paper supplies
- Allan & Gray Corporation
- Binder
- Sendor Bindery, Inc.
- Binding materials
- bound in Joanna Kennett Brown on 110 pt. binder’s board
- Binding method
- Smyth sewn, square back
- Endpapers
- plain in text stock
- Publisher
- Aperture, Inc.
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