- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books; 1 edition (May 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0811828565
- ISBN-13: 978-0811828567
- Product Dimensions: 26.3 x 26.1 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
Readers bleary and exhausted from the ceaseless hard sell of contemporary advertising will be refreshed and entertained by this loving and lavish look at a world of advertising that, if no less commercial, is certainly easier on the eye. Since 1879, when it was founded by the brothers for which it is named, Nashville's Hatch Show Print Shop has produced using handcrafted letterpress methods clearly explained in the text an astounding variety of posters and ephemera advertising everything from trailers to state fairs, wrestling matches to circuses, Roberto Duran to Dwight D. Eisenhower. But most of the work reproduced here in 190 lush color and b&w illustrations is devoted to announcements of musical events (unsurprising, given the shop's location), from Hank Williams to Bo Diddley, Emmylou Harris to Buddy Guy. Visual highlights include a strikingly vivid full-page portrait of Roy Acuff, trailer ads with the iconic immediacy of early Warhol and an ad for pure sausage that practically smokes off the page. Interwoven as well with the authors' engaging oral history (Sherraden and Horvath help to run the shop) are such tidbits as business letters from Bessie Smith and Col. Tom Parker, but the bulk of the book is rightly given to reproducing the posters that so powerfully evoke the music and Nashville itself. (May 17)Forecast: After changes of hands beginning in the 1950s, the still operational Hatch was donated to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992. The book's pub date coincides with the opening of the CMHF's new, $37-million museum complex. Chronicle continues to solidify its position in packaging primary-source curios for popular consumption, from recent huge-scale projects like The Beatles Anthology to The Good Citizen's Handbook, a compilation of mid-20th-century government handbooks and pamphlets.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Nashville's Hatch Show Print began churning out posters in 1879, when Charles and Herbert Hatch, sons of printer William T. Hatch, took their first job--a handbill advertising celebrity preacher Henry Ward Beecher. With woodblocks and metal type, the brothers developed a distinctive style and soon took on vaudeville acts, minstrel shows, and the budding motion-picture industry as clients. It wasn't until the Grand Ole Opry began broadcasting a few blocks north of the shop, however, that business really took off. Now owned by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the shop, while continuing to make its mark for poster making, does a good business reprinting classic posters of Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, and others. This handsome volume, written in part by current manager Jim Sherraden, surveys Hatch Show Print's ups and downs and relays a number of amusing anecdotes, but its real strength is its glorious gallery of wonderfully evocative posters. Benjamin Segedin
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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HATCH SHOW PRINT IS AN OLD-FASHIONED LETTERPRESS PRINT SHOP THAT HAS BEEN MAKING ENTERTAINMENT POSTERS-"SHOW POSTERS"-IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, SINCE 1879. Read the first page
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HATCH SHOW PRINT IS AN OLD-FASHIONED LETTERPRESS PRINT SHOP THAT HAS BEEN MAKING ENTERTAINMENT POSTERS-"SHOW POSTERS"-IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, SINCE 1879. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A true believer...,
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This review is from: Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Letterpress Shop (Hardcover)
I am gonna order this book! I just pulled out the 2 prints and 1 bad press sheet that I talked Jim out of when I was at the shop, 4 yeaqrs ago. I am finally going to have them matted and framed! I found it (the shop) by accident, had never heard of it before. I was in Nahville for an afternoon, I am one lucky printer to have found them.I have been throwin' type and printing for over 40 years. You hardly know your there when you walk by, it was instinct that made me open the door. I teared up when looked in.....it was as if I was in the Vatican! The art majors that work inside took me to this guy Jim, they were so great. They saw the way I looked around at everything and treated me as if I was the new guy, just entering heaven. A great place to see and the prints are incredible. Ya need to see this place if you get near Nashville.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Proud to be a Hatch Show Printer,
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This review is from: Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Letterpress Shop (Hardcover)
As a designer and printer at Hatch Show Print, this book makes me very proud. Our beloved Jim Sherraden, along with Elek and Paul did an absolutely amazing job collecting, archiving and compiling 123 years worth of incredible letterpress poster history. The images are simply stunning and the stories are engaging. This is a coffee table book that will spend more time in your hands than on your coffee table.Buy the book and then stop by the shop located in historic downtown Nashville. Get a tour of the shop, see the posters, and have Jim autograph your book!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful collection of hundreds of years of poster design,
By Delaney Gill (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Letterpress Shop (Hardcover)
Hatch Show Print: History of an American Print Shop is a pleasurable read of over a century's worth of poster design, but the accompanying images are what make this book. Chronicle Books has done an incredible job of reproducing this letterpress artwork while retaining all of the charms and details of this unique process. Definitely one of those books you can pick up dozens of time and find something with each new look. There is rumor of an expanded version to come in the future, unfolding more of this shop's extensive history and possibly a new chapter chronicling the more recent designs. I definitely look forward to that!
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