Photographic Books Printed by the Stinehour Press

 

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We are slowly creating a new section of our archive of works connected to The Meriden Gravure Company and The Stinehour Press to focus on those books dedicated to photography. The two presses combined to undertake projects demonstrating the extraordinary 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 the latest technologies and 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 & full color printing, attracting the finest artists and designers of that period, beginning with the landmark publication of Alfred Stieglitz’s Georgia O’Keeffe in 1978, to the close of The Stinehour Press in 2008.

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Photography Books Printed by The Stinehour Press

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Merry Christmas from the Stinehour Press

An early Christmas keepsake printed for friends of the Stinehour Press in 1958

 
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A few Paragraphs on Printing inVermont... By Roland E. Robinson. Lunenburg, Vermont
The Stinehour Press, Christmas, 1958

Excerpt from Vermont:  A Study of Independence  (1897)

6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; 8 pages. 200 copies printed for friends of the Press; handsewn into printed blue paper cover.
Envelope addressed by Rocky Stinehour.

This is No. 80 in A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years

Selected and Compiled by David Farrell
Published by Meriden-Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, 1988
 

A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years is available for purchase in the Shop

In Loving Memory of Rocky Stinehour

 
 

It is with great sadness that we share with you the news of the passing of Roderick Stinehour, printer, designer and founder of The Stinehour Press. The pages on this website honor his work, and will continue to do so, showing the work he loved and to which he dedicated his life. That work becomes more marvellous as time passes, and it is our hope to bring further to light Rocky's contributions to the world of printing and humanism. 
Rocky carried out his endeavors with an extraordinarily dedicated and talented group of people, and among his closest allies were his wife of sixty-eight years, Elizabeth, and his family. His responsibilities seem enormous in retrospect, yet he built so naturally the environment he required to thrive: a strong relationship with his family; his life in the country, in Lunenburg, Vermont; commitments to his employees and the community; and the enduring friendships which led to so many fruitful collaborations. He was a friend and mentor to so many, and perhaps to many of you who visit these pages. We invite you to write in the Comments section below about how you met Rocky, or to share a fond remembrance of him. Please let us know if there are any topics you might wish to see explored or presented here. Thank you very much for visiting. Our hearts are sad, but carry always the remembrance of this beautiful and loving human being. We shall carry this into the work we do and the lives we make.