Birdwood Press ~ Colorado
(Gail Watson)

Evidence of Love
Photographs by Lida Moser
Designed by Gail Watson
Golden Gate Canyon, Colorado: Birdwood Press, 2006. Edition of 4.

5.6 x 5.6"; 33 pages (31 loose pages; colophon bottom pastedown; introduction lid pastedown). Black ribbon lift for loose pages. Black-and-white photographs by noted photographer Lida Moser scanned from a contact sheet and laser printed on Arches Text Wove. Letterpress printed text in ITC American Typrewriter. Housed 6.4 x 6.4 x 2.2" metal lidded case with clasp (a recycled movie trailer shipper from Columbia Pictures circa 1960).

There is a point in the life of every family — if it's one of the lucky ones — at which things seem perfect, inevitable, and bound to continue forever. Because realization lags behind living, it's often viewed only as paradise lost. This is a record of such a point in the life of one family.

Gail Watson: "A distressed and torn contact sheet of photos from one Sunday in the early seventies, 1972 perhaps. While the mother prepares dinner, the daughters set the table and finish homework, and the father comes home from work. Small B&W photos of a family smiling and laughing. Before the divorce and the battles against breast cancer and Parkinson's disease were lost. Can you see the beginning of collapse, the genesis of disease, the uncertainty of the times or the pain of adolescence? Focus instead on the promise and belonging — proof of a once happy family and the evidence of love."
$850 (Last Copy)