Not a livre d'artiste, one of those high-quality collaborations between an artist and a fine-art printer, and certainly not a coffee-table buster.
It was printed, on paper specially made in France, by a fine-art printer, Meridian, in Rhode Island, with no-expense-spared fidelity to Adams's original prints.
In 1989 Ms. McCready married Mr. Noblet, a fine-art printer, and in 1995 she opened a gallery, Karen McCready Fine Arts, in half of his print studio, Noblet Serigraphie, in a large second-floor loft on West 13th Street in Greenwich Village.
That's something that goes beyond today's state-of-the-art printers".
They have continuous access to a dozen, state-of-the-art 3D printers, and they're going almost constantly. .
"He's a good guy and he knows a lot about art," said the printer.
I say "luckily" because I'd already sent the art to the printer.
And so poor Lucien, ever good-natured, tried to please everybody by being an Arts and Crafts printer and an Impressionist painter at once.
Increasingly, as technology became more complex and shops more highly specialized and automated, design became more a profession; the typographer, trained in industrial design or graphic arts, succeeded the printer or the publisher in deciding how a book should look.
