Title | Walt Whitman's Faces |
Artist / Creator | Barbara Henry |
Press Name | Harsimus Press |
Artist's Nationality | United States |
Place of Publication | Jersey City, NJ |
Publication Date | 2012 |
Contributors | Karen Karbiener |
Process / Technique | Letterpress |
Structure / Binding | Case binding |
Medium / Materials | Photographs, linocuts |
Paper Stock | Zerkall Book |
Number of Pages | 32 pages |
Dimensions (WxHxD) | 7.5 x 10.85 x .5 inches closed |
Edition Size | Edition of 80 |
Box / Wrapper | Mylar dust jacket |
Signed & Numbered | Signed and numbered edition |
Walt Whitman's Faces resulted from reading a poem in the 1855 (first) edition of Leaves of Grass that struck me as being about typefaces. I set the poem as a type specimen, illustrating what I believed to be Whitman's descriptions of type with appropriate examples. Karen Karbiener, a Whitman scholar, contributed an essay on the poem.
Artist Bio
Barbara Henry is an artist, printer, and poet publishing under the imprint Harsimus Press. She is Master Printer at The Center for Book Arts in New York City and was for many years Curator at Bowne & Co., Stationers at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York.