Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set books
Omnific Studios, London, England, 2002
Description
The first and most obvious requirement was to achieve reproductions as faithful as possible to the “spirit” of the original photographs. The 1,642 original prints were scanned at the National Gallery. With Sarah Greenough and Mary Yakush, Robert Hennessey devised a printing strategy using black plus five colors, plus a selective tint, that could be variously combined to approximate the range of colors in Stieglitz’s platinum, palladium and gelatin silver prints. The second requirement was to reproduce the prints in a proportionate size, accurately reproducing minute differences between prints of a similar size.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2002
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- Omnific Studios
- Designer
- Derek Birdsall
- Production director
- Bob Hennessey
- Production coordinator
- Chris Vogel
- Trim size
- 9 5/8 x 12 5/8 inches
- Pages
- Volume 1, 496, Volume 2, 460
- Quantity printed
- 8,505
- Compositors
- Elsa Birdsall, Shirley Birdsall, Omnific Studios
- Typefaces
- Futura, Monotype Walbaum
- Printer
- Cantz
- Paper
- Scheufelen PhoeniXmotion Xantur 150 gsm
- Binding method
- Hardcover, Smyth-sewn
- Jacket designer
- Derek Birdsall
- Jacket printer
- Cantz
- Author
- Sarah Greenough
- Editor
- Mary Yakush
- Publisher
- National Gallery of Art
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