"Hour of Lead" Book
14 pages, 6 x 6 in. Japanese Stab Stitched.
Handmade & Printed on Inkjet Paper, text printed on
Japanese Sumi-e Paper.
Made in an edition of 20 with 2 artist proofs.
Signed & Numbered.
Published in Boston, Massachusetts (2010) by the Make Book Blog
”Ariel Kessler, who I graduated with from The Massachusetts College of Art & Design, approached me (in the Summer of 2010) about making her series, Hour of lead, into a book. I was stoked from the get-go about doing this book with her. I was excited not only because I liked the project idea, but also because I thought the narrative book form would be well suited for it because the project is about a conversation through photographic images. A couple of months later, after a little mail, texting, email and Facebook chat exchange, here we have it. A sweet little handmade book with a sweet story.
The series itself is a dialogue created by Ariel, combining her own silver gelatin prints and her late father's Kodachrome color slides. Having just a little memory of him, she created this narrative of images not only to gain insight into his world, but to also show the effect of losing him.”
—From the publisher, John Steck Jr.
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