Broadside
Here We Are, After All / Richard Ford
Size: 10” wide x 15” high
Paper: Mohawk Superfine Smooth Ultra White 130# Cover
Edition: 226 (200 numbered, 26 lettered)
Published 2018
Letterpress printed in two colors. One of 226 copies. All copies signed by Ford.
Features an excerpt from Ford's memoir Between Them: Remembering My Parents. The broadside’s half-tone illustration is meant to evoke newspaper printing of the 1940s, when the photograph itself was taken: VJ Day, 1945. In the original photograph of the Fords, the fedora of Parker Ford (Ford’s father) and his right arm were cropped out of the image, as was the left arm of Edna Parker (Ford’s mother). The Ford family was carefully reconstituted via PhotoShop before the half-tone plate was cast, making this the only version of this whole image.
Richard Ford is an internationally celebrated author of eight novels and five short story collections. Between Them: Remembering My Parents—which provided the excerpt from this broadside—is Ford’s first book of nonfiction.
In 1996 Ford’s novel Independence Day—the sequel to The Sportswriter, which introduced his now-famous protagonist Frank Bascombe—was the first novel to win both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; that same year, Ford was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. More recently, Ford was awarded France’s 2013 Prix Femina étranger and Spain’s 2016 Princess of Asturias Award.
Broadside
Here We Are, After All / Richard Ford
Size: 10” wide x 15” high
Paper: Mohawk Superfine Smooth Ultra White 130# Cover
Edition: 226 (200 numbered, 26 lettered)
Published 2018
Letterpress printed in two colors. One of 226 copies. All copies signed by Ford.
Features an excerpt from Ford's memoir Between Them: Remembering My Parents. The broadside’s half-tone illustration is meant to evoke newspaper printing of the 1940s, when the photograph itself was taken: VJ Day, 1945. In the original photograph of the Fords, the fedora of Parker Ford (Ford’s father) and his right arm were cropped out of the image, as was the left arm of Edna Parker (Ford’s mother). The Ford family was carefully reconstituted via PhotoShop before the half-tone plate was cast, making this the only version of this whole image.
Richard Ford is an internationally celebrated author of eight novels and five short story collections. Between Them: Remembering My Parents—which provided the excerpt from this broadside—is Ford’s first book of nonfiction.
In 1996 Ford’s novel Independence Day—the sequel to The Sportswriter, which introduced his now-famous protagonist Frank Bascombe—was the first novel to win both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; that same year, Ford was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. More recently, Ford was awarded France’s 2013 Prix Femina étranger and Spain’s 2016 Princess of Asturias Award.