There are some books that just stay with you.
The latest book to positively haunt me ever since we acquired it is Valerie Hollister’s Seven Computer Landscapes.
Published in 1993 the book “combines contemporary graphic art drawn on a computer with traditional letterpress printing.”
“In deliberate anachronism, the nineteenth-century process that has been used to print Seven Computer Landscapes gives each image deep, velvety blacks,…and a slight tactile impression on the page.”
The resulting almost dot matrix vibe of the drawings transform them into an almost woodcut-like appearance.
And how did Hollister, who at the time was doing larger scale realistic paintings, get interested in drawing on the computer? From her twelve-year-old daughters “experiments with MacPaint.”
The book is bound in transparent lucite covers and is accordian-fold allowing you to see all the images simultaneously or in groups. It was published by Occasional Works in an edition of 35 signed and numbered copies and it appeared in our latest “Fresh Sheet“