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The Monograph is not a coffee table book. It is the collector's edition.
Fourteen by eleven inches. Fifty pages. Fine art bound, with the heavier boards and deeper plates of the volumes published by Phaidon, Steidl, and the museum imprints whose monographs sit on the shelves of the photographers you admire.
The paper is what separates this book from the rest of the collection. We use museum grade art paper from Saxony, in the east of Germany, where it is produced under ISO 9706 testing for permanence and Forest Stewardship Council certification. This is not silver halide photo paper, the kind used by photo labs. This is fine art paper, the kind used by galleries when they sell a print as an edition. It is the same paper standard used for archival museum collections. Under correct conditions, it is rated to last more than one hundred years without yellowing, fading, or breaking down. The photographs you commit to this book in your thirties will look the same when your grandchildren open it in their fifties.
The names are debossed. Not printed. We press them into the linen, so that when you run a fingertip across the cover you feel them before you read them. It is the smallest detail in the entire collection, and the one you notice first.
Where The Atelier tells the story page by page, The Monograph distills it. Fifty pages. Fewer photographs, each given the space it earned. We design it around fifty to sixty images, the way a gallerist designs a show. There is editorial sequencing, considered pacing, and the kind of restraint that makes the photographs more powerful, not less.
It will not fit on every shelf. That is the point.
The Monograph is the format for the bride who is not collecting memories. She is composing them.
Materials
Fine art album binding. Fourteen by eleven inches. Fifty pages, designed around fifty to sixty photographs. Museum grade art paper from Saxony, Germany. ISO 9706 certified for archival permanence. FSC certified. Names debossed into the cover, not printed. Designed in Europe. Bound through our American bookbinding house at their production atelier in Asia using fine art album techniques developed for museum publications.
The Monograph is not a coffee table book. It is the collector's edition.
Fourteen by eleven inches. Fifty pages. Fine art bound, with the heavier boards and deeper plates of the volumes published by Phaidon, Steidl, and the museum imprints whose monographs sit on the shelves of the photographers you admire.
The paper is what separates this book from the rest of the collection. We use museum grade art paper from Saxony, in the east of Germany, where it is produced under ISO 9706 testing for permanence and Forest Stewardship Council certification. This is not silver halide photo paper, the kind used by photo labs. This is fine art paper, the kind used by galleries when they sell a print as an edition. It is the same paper standard used for archival museum collections. Under correct conditions, it is rated to last more than one hundred years without yellowing, fading, or breaking down. The photographs you commit to this book in your thirties will look the same when your grandchildren open it in their fifties.
The names are debossed. Not printed. We press them into the linen, so that when you run a fingertip across the cover you feel them before you read them. It is the smallest detail in the entire collection, and the one you notice first.
Where The Atelier tells the story page by page, The Monograph distills it. Fifty pages. Fewer photographs, each given the space it earned. We design it around fifty to sixty images, the way a gallerist designs a show. There is editorial sequencing, considered pacing, and the kind of restraint that makes the photographs more powerful, not less.
It will not fit on every shelf. That is the point.
The Monograph is the format for the bride who is not collecting memories. She is composing them.
Materials
Fine art album binding. Fourteen by eleven inches. Fifty pages, designed around fifty to sixty photographs. Museum grade art paper from Saxony, Germany. ISO 9706 certified for archival permanence. FSC certified. Names debossed into the cover, not printed. Designed in Europe. Bound through our American bookbinding house at their production atelier in Asia using fine art album techniques developed for museum publications.