This book was motivated and created as a legacy book for my son and is the first and only book dedicated to just my photography. As befits a legacy book, quality was a paramount objective, and I'm glad to say the final result completely validates that aim. If you are interested in the book, you should realize that its quality is a defining factor. (The linked Kickstarter video below gives a very good overview of the book. The hoped-for quality truly materialized.)
The book is 11x14 inches, printed on the finest coated stock, and each photos has a separate varnish. It is two hundred and forty eight pages with an Introduction by Shannon Perich, Curator Photographic History Collection, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and Preface by Neal Preston, photographer.
Other than my foreword, the introduction and the preface which are written, this book is dedicated solely to the images with captions identifying each. For those that want more depth and involvement there is a DELUXE EDITION, which is the same book but packaged in in a clamshell with the addition of a separately bound 50+ page companion THE INSIDE STORY. This is for someone that wants to take a deeper dive. It includes several essays about photography, my own experience learning it, and behind the scenes stories and anecdotes for each image.
The book was funded by a Kickstarter Campaign ("A Project We Love.") You can see the video below. As I say in the video, it's not just about the people in the photographs, (I am the only photographer to shoot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, but also a wide array of other artists including Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Chris Cornell and more), it was also the places I got to be: on the roof with The Beatles, on all of the Rolling Stones 1969 Tour including Altamont, the Rolling Stones 1972 Tour, the album cover for Who's Next and Quadrophenia, the Beatles' last photo session, and more. This book is the only book that includes high quality reproductions of it all.
