Hunter-gatherer
Subtitle: family business, Mario
By: [Mario Korf] ; Kumi Korf.
Contributors: Korf, Kumi.; Benedict, Brad, printer.; Blacks Corner Letterpress.; Artists' Books Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Published by the Experimental Printmaking Institute and the David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Easton, Pa
Language: eng
Subjects: Skin diving -- Poetry; Artists' books -- Pennsylvania -- Easton
Genres: Poetry.
Notes: In free verse.
"Text and the original video stills by Mario Korf, a freediver/hunter-gatherer living on the Pacific Coast in California" -- Colophon.
"Calligraphy on the title page by Kumi Korf. Intaglio plates by Kumi Korf, printed by Christa Wolf at Rikka Press, Ithaca, NY ... Digital images printed onto the intaglio prints by Chris Tague at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College. Garamond type set by Michael and Winifred Bixler and printed by Brad Benedict, Blacks Corner Letterpress. Binding design by Kumi Korf. Edition bound by Beth Sica" -- Colophon.
Unfolded cover measures 21 x 123 cm.
One edge of each folded leaf is tacked with thread to a thin metal dowel and sewn through an accordion-pleated spine. Pulling on a brown string attached to the colophon leaf (leaf 9, a double leaf that does not unfold) will expand the spine to lay the leaves flatter.
Folding silk-covered covers are fastened with a large shark's tooth clasp attached to a braided cord.
In a silk-covered clamshell box.
"How to open and close the book," [1] leaf, laid in.
"There are sixteen books and four artist proofs in the edition" -- Colophon.
LC has copy 3/16, signed by Kumi Korf.