Sara L. Press
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Sara L. Press is an American book artist and photographer.
Press graduated from Columbia University
in 1997, and trained at San Francisco Art Institute
, receiving her M.F.A. in printmaking and photography in 2006. She resides in Pasadena, California.
Press' work, under the imprint Deeply Game Publications, is represented in the permanent collections of several notable rare book libraries and museums, including Stanford University
special collections, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery
, Harvard's Houghton Library
, and the Walker Art Center
. The Library of Congress
Rare Books and Special Collections Division has three of her books: The Wolf-girl of Midnapore, Predator/Prey, and A Deeply Game Dog: the Sweet Science of Breeding Champions. Her commercial photography includes album covers for No-Neck Blues Band
, Dusty Trails
; book jacket art for Barney Rosset's
imprint, Blue Moon Books; and magazine covers for Heeb.
Press' book art, combining letterpress typography with visual media such as etchings,
photography, and silk screen, often explores areas of overlap between human and animal
worlds. The books use both found and original texts.
Press graduated from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in 1997, and trained at San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
, receiving her M.F.A. in printmaking and photography in 2006. She resides in Pasadena, California.
Press' work, under the imprint Deeply Game Publications, is represented in the permanent collections of several notable rare book libraries and museums, including Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
special collections, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery
Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...
, Harvard's Houghton Library
Houghton Library
Houghton Library is the primary repository for rare books and manuscripts at Harvard University. It is part of the Harvard College Library within the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Houghton is located on the south side of Harvard Yard, next to Widener Library.- History :Harvard's first...
, and the Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...
. The Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
Rare Books and Special Collections Division has three of her books: The Wolf-girl of Midnapore, Predator/Prey, and A Deeply Game Dog: the Sweet Science of Breeding Champions. Her commercial photography includes album covers for No-Neck Blues Band
No-Neck Blues Band
The No-Neck Blues Band, also known as NNCK, is a seven-member free-form improvisational musical collective from New York City. Formed in 1992, the original band was of eight members , and has practiced weekly in a space in Harlem since...
, Dusty Trails
Dusty Trails
Dusty Trails is an American music duo consisting of Vivian Trimble and Josephine Wiggs . Trimble does lead vocals and Wiggs sings harmony vocals. Their 2000 debut album, Dusty Trails has been described as mood music and it is heavy on keyboards, percussion and bass...
; book jacket art for Barney Rosset's
Barney Rosset
Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr. is the former owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Evergreen Review. He led a successful legal battle to publish the uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, and later was the American...
imprint, Blue Moon Books; and magazine covers for Heeb.
Press' book art, combining letterpress typography with visual media such as etchings,
photography, and silk screen, often explores areas of overlap between human and animal
worlds. The books use both found and original texts.