[viii]214, [1] pp. With a woodcut by Leonard Baskin and Jon Goodman's hand-pulled photogravures of works by Keith Carter, Luis Gonzalez-Palma, Duane Michals, Michael Kenna, Mark Klett, Olivia Parker, and others. (Folio) 38.5x34 cm (15¼x13½"), brown half morocco and stamped black cloth; matching clamshell box. deluxe edition. No. 199 of 230 numbered copies, this copy with all of the contributing artists' signatures on the colophon. 

"The Journal of Contemporary Photography features hand-pulled photogravure images from many of the world's most highly respected contemporary photographers. Each gravure is made by Jon Goodman, the modern master of the process. These images are combined with brilliant criticism, poetry, and fiction from many of the world's most acclaimed writers. Not since Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work has there been suchattention to beauty, such incisive criticism, and such an articulate melding of visual and literary points of view. Each volume is an object of beauty.

Volume I focuses on the "transcendent vision" of 15 major contemporary photographers, illustrated here in richly printed hand-pulled photogravure. Volume I also contains a woodcut by the late Leonard Baskin. Writers include Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Wilbur; prize-winning novelists Ann Beattie and Robert Olen Butler; poet and critic Dana Gioia; Harvard professors and award winning historians John Stilgoe and John Stauffer; and Wales' great poet, the late R. S. Thomas, among many others." (From the publisher's website).