Nov 12, 2013
FLAMETHROWERS - Rachel Kushner
The cover design needed to appeal to a paperback audience, to give a suggestion of the novel without being too narrative and allow plenty of room for the amazing quotes. The design uses the photography of Ernst Haas...

FLAMETHROWERS - Rachel Kushner

The cover design needed to appeal to a paperback audience, to give a suggestion of the novel without being too narrative and allow plenty of room for the amazing quotes. The design uses the photography of Ernst Haas (represented by Getty Images). Haas was an innovative master of colour photography and form. He set out as a photojournalist to take pictures of the real world but infused each image with reflections, motion and other abstract elements. He created strikingly coloured graphic images.

The photographs of the torn posters of New York are from 1970. They have an urban energy and are suggestive of protest. The torn panels of the poster allowed us to show fragments of the woman from the back cover of the UK hardback edition, New York and the motorcyclist (back cover).

Paperback publication date : 02/01/2014

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