I am very excited to announce the publication of my first book, The Range of Memory. This book is the realization of a dream that started in 1974 when I first began seriously making photographs in the Jackson Hole area.
The Range of Memory contains black and white photographs from more than 30 years of my work in the Jackson Hole area, and two wonderful essays by my close friend and nationally acclaimed nature writer, Terry Tempest Williams. As the name suggests, the photographs and essays focus on Jackson Hole, the Teton Range and the surrounding area. This is a project Terry and I have dreamed about for more than 30 years. It is a beautifully printed 120-page coffee table book, 12”x12”, with 58 black and white photographs gorgeously reproduced in tritone (three shades of black and gray). The essays are printed on a luxurious uncoated stock with a wonderful hand. The photos are reproduced on a silky, heavy weight, matte coated stock in the style of the elegant books from years ago. As you might expect, Lee designed the book, so it’s OK for me to brag about how beautiful the design is. The book is available in two versions. Both versions contain the same pages within the body of the book. The regular hardcover edition comes with a dustjacket over the cloth cover. The first printing of this edition is limited to 1,750 copies. The Collector's Edition comes in a handmade clamshell box covered in gorgeous blue/gray cloth. There are only 250 copies of the Collector's Edition and each book is individually numbered and signed by Ed on a special vellum page tipped into the beginning of the book. The book itself has an image glued to the cover in a specially debossed window. On the inside cover of the clamshell box is a window holding a beautifully printed letterpress broadside featuring excerpts from Terry's beautiful essay as well as an original print. The broadside and original print are also each signed and numbered.
The book is published by Clark City Press in Livingston, Montana, owned by Russell Chatham, himself a wonderful writer and extraordinary painter. We’re pleased to have Russ publish the book because Clark City Press has a reputation for publishing only beautifully crafted projects. Here is a link to the copy that Russ wrote for the front flap of the dust jacket because Terry and I are very flattered by what he had to say.
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