Covering Photography

Covering Photography is a web-based archive and resource for the study of the relationship between the history of photography and book cover design. Read more about the project.

.. “Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence and Coincidence,” a show of books collected by professional photographer Karl Baden, an art instructor at Boston College. ...

...the Swallow Press paperback of Anais Nin's 'House of Incest' (Illustrated by Val Telberg) is included, largely because it was produced to reach an audience larger than the few wealthy collectors targeted for a limited edition....



A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat


Photographer: Val Telberg
Author: Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1961
Designer: Gilda Kuhlman

Photo Genre: Manipulated[multiple exposure/print]
Book Genre: Poetry & Prose
House of Incest

Photographer: Val Telberg
Author: Anais Nin
Publisher: Swallow Press
Publication Date: 1961
Designer: Not listed

Photo Genre: Photomontage
Book Genre: Novel[erotic]