Letterforms are an inseparable part of a civilized literary
landscape. At some distant point in history, letters started as
representations of things in the world. Then, gradually, through a
complex evolutionary process, they came to be defined as the closed
shapes of a writing system. This photo-typographic essay is a
meditation on this remarkable transition. Exploring the
relationship between typography and the visual world around us, the
essay looks at the twenty-six letters of the English version of the
Roman alphabet in four manners: as the world presenting itself in
the shape of a letter, as an intended letter in space, as a flat
letter on paper, and finally as a pure geometric form embodied in a
typeface. Familiar letterforms are presented in fresh, surprising
ways, forming an homage to the beauty of type and a reflection on
its ubiquity in our visual understanding of the world around us.
Alongside the fascinating images, Ornan Rotem's text offers an
overview and a detailed discussion of each letter. In this unusual
book, text and image coalesce to create a modern day primer on
letters: a typographic abecedarium.
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