A photobook that provides much viewing enjoyment. It has a conventional beauty and elegance that is now seldom encountered. Exceptionally well lithographed and printed, and traditionally made with faintly tinted paper and laid endpapers, yet without appearing old-fashioned. This is in the best tradition of really well produced books: a breath of fresh air, a calm backwater in the vast ocean of photobooks. Its conventional monochrome is unobtrusive: much would have been lost by printing in colour. The modern cover is in pleasant contrast.
Thomas Manneke – Amsterdam
Edition: 2016
Language: English, Dutch
Final editor: Thomas Manneke, Ilya Rabinovich (picture editing)
Publisher: Thomas Manneke, Amsterdam
Designer: Van Lennep, Amsterdam (Stephan Achterberg)
Lithographer: Harold Strak, Amsterdam
Printer: Tienkamp, Groningen
Binder: Van Waarden, Zaandam
Dimensions: 306 x 306 x 12
Amount of pages: 84 p.
Number of copies: 1,000
Price: € 38
ISBN: none
Font and foundry: Practice (Medium Xbold)
Binding style: sewn hardback with a flat spine
Material: 135gsm Symbol Tatami Ivory (interior), 160gsm Fabriano Ingres Ghiaccio (endpapers), 120gsm Wibalin Natural 501 Cotton White over 2 mm grey board (binding)