First Impressions

Creator

Ben Blount

Other Contributors

April Sheridan (Cover printing)

Description

Ben Blount's book, First Impressions, takes a look inside an array of many different people's experiences facing prejudice due to their race. Blount accounts stories of young children to the elderly facing racial discrimination. He writes that they are "personal stories of people's first experience being the 'other.'"

Publisher

Swift Impressions Printing and Columbia College Chicago

Subject

Race and identity

Extent

5.5" x 9.5"

Style

Staple binding

Material

Mixed media: different types of paper

Technique

Printing and letterpress printing from polymer plates

Date

2017

Other Information

Signed by the artist. More information about the artist and the book can be found here: https://www.blountobjects.com/product/first-impressions

Recommended Citation

Blount, Ben, "First Impressions" (2017). Rollins College Book Arts Collection. 20.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/20

Exhibit Location

This work was featured in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum as a part of the exhibition “Common Ground: Selected Works from The Rollins Book Arts Collection” from September 18, 2021 – December 31, 2021.