First on the topic of the book, how it was made and so on. The book is produced by Adoramapix, run by Adorama in New York. It is basically a series of digital c-prints that are folded, glued together, trimmed and bound. Because of the way it is bound, the page spreads open flat and have a nice thick, solid feel to them.

Now to the question of price, cost effectiveness etc. I originally produced this book to accompany an exhibit. I really wanted to keep the price down, which is why I went with the smallest size Adorama offers. My goal was not to sell a lot of books or even to make any money, and if I remember correctly I actually sold it at a slight loss. I really just wanted people at the gallery show to be able to take some of my work away with them if they liked it. Selling it through photo-eye and Kehrer/Verlag made it necessary to raise the price to accommodate their mark-up, with the result being that I still just break even when all is said and done. So the question of cost effectiveness really depends on what you’re end goal is. For me this has been a really valuable experience, the support and exposure that photo-eye and Kehrer/Verlag have given is something that I could not have achieved if I had sold the book on my own. It’s a worthwhile trade off – they make a little money and I get my work out to a larger community.

It is personal. You love the imagery or you don’t. I do.

It is not a book in the traditional sense of being offset printed or the now ubiquitous POD book, they are c-prints, which makes it a collection of physical photographic prints, outside of this I have only purchased printed artists books that have included one C-print and the least expensive book was $600.

I think that it is a deal at $60. It is not a Blurb book, this is bound C-prints which in effect is a mini-series of the gallery show.

Do you find the size ambiguous or are larges sizes, which would be considered a tradition sized coffee table book, a run of the mill book and garners little interest since you could possibly find it at a book seller?

I like it and at first I thought the price was a bit steep but then again you have a limited edition and it is signed and a unique concept that I haven’t seen in the last 35 years.