The Book Jacket Art of Chip Kidd

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All the Pretty Horses (1992)
"It took some time for everyone to come around to the idea of a black and white scheme for All the Pretty Horses. Even after I showed the sketch, [editor] Gary Fisketjon kept regularly asking me: had I thought at all about color? Of course I had, and if I got my way there wasn't going to be any. The animal's mane in David Katzenstein's mesmerizing photograph was so inviting and tactile I didn't want to distract from it."

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