Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power
9" x 11.5"
Hardcover book with printed book-cloth
160 pages
Designed in collaboration with Andrew Blauvelt

Picturing Power presents Shambroom's five major series together for the first time. The common themes and aspects of his work — neutrality, revealing unseen locations of power (from offices to security training facilities), negotiation of access — informed the catalog's graphic language.

Exploring neutrality, several shades of grey (both paper and ink) are used throughout the essay section. The essays' titles are set as large warning announcements — their edges then obscured, in reference to the relationship between the veiled and the unveiled in Shambroom's work.

The cover image is printed on book cloth, resembling the canvas Shambroom uses for the Security portraits.

ISBN-13: 978-1-933045-75-7
©2008 Weisman Art Museum