Letterpress printed by Dan Keleher on Mohawk Letterpress paper from Univers type cast by Ed Rayher (with titles handset by Karen Randall from original mid-1950s ATF Univers foundry type). Printed in an edition of 150 with a limited additional set of deluxe copies which include a four-color image printed on gampi by means of a Vandercook press by Karen Randall. Hand bound by Karen Randall. 44 pp. 91/2 x 123/4
The light, quick turns of language here really sparkle! And the vivid details Rice chooses seem to come out of nowhere to land perfectly, precisely, every time. Like any excellent portraitist, she exposes her subjects’ emotional landscapes, but she also goes beyond the frame of the individual to evoke an entire time and place. Montparnasse between the wars was so full of color, and Rice re-enacts it here.