David Alan Harvey
Off for a Family Drive.
When did it start? David Alan Harvey and I first talked about a book called Photo Boy sometime in the mid nineties on a cold night by the fireplace in his basement apartment in D.C. Good things take time. After some tentative starts in 2016, Walgreen prints started wallpapering his upstairs bedrooms in OBX by April 2017, eventually spreading out to the hall. An edit migrated downstairs in 2018 for sequencing.
Harvey Deluxe
Besides the regular edition of Harvey’s Off for a Family Drive (hopefully printed as soon as the virus restrictions are lifted in Italy) there is a deluxe edition that will be produced in the U.S. The book exterior replicates the original album that David made as a present to his grandparents when he was 14 years old. But the similarity ends there as 72 images are presented showing the variety and consistency of Harvey’s work—from his 7th grade classroom to the streets of Rio to home in OBX in 2020.
The pages are individually printed front and back with Epson pigment inks on Moab Entrada paper. They are bound with posts through the covers. The clamshell case features a folding frame in the lid that accepts any of the pages in the book. The framed photograph can be displayed fronting the case, or folded inside.
Prototype built by Roswell Bookbinding in Phoenix, AZ.