Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings
Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton
Design by Eleanor Morris Caponigro
Published by the National Gallery of Art, Callaway Editions, 1983
One of the finest examples of printing in a photographic book, the photographs were reproduced by tritone dry trap printing at Meriden Gravure Company, with letterpress printing of the text in Monotype Bembo by The Stinehour Press. Printed on Mohawk Superfine in a color made specially for this book. Published to coincide with the exhibit, Alfred Stieglitz, mounted at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.
Cover: Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait, Hand and Wheel, 1935
This begins our survey of the photography books printed by The Meriden Gravure Company and The Stinehour Press. These two presses combined to accomplish what would become extraordinary examples of the possibilities of photographic books, books which would make significant contributions to the fields of both printing and photography. In their dedication to the finest reproduction of photography, they made use of not only the latest technologies, but imaginatively innovated upon existing ones and developed others to extend the range of both imaging and printing. Collaborating with some of the greatest technicians in the field, they became masters of duotone and tritone printing, as well as dry trap and full color printing, attracting the finest artists and designers of that period, beginning with the landmark publication of Alfred Stieglitz’s Georgia O’Keeffe, A Portrait in 1978, until the closing of The Stinehour Press in 2008.