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title: "How to Make a Book With Steidl"
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# How to Make a Book With Steidl

**Brand:** alive mind
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## Description

In this age of digital media, Gerhard Steidl stands as one of the few remaining publishers to maintain an unwavering commitment to the quality and craftsmanship of the printed book. For more than forty years, Steidl has personally supervised the publishing and printing of some of the most significant books on fashion, art, and photography. In HOW TO MAKE A BOOK WITH STEIDL, filmmakers Gereon Wetzel and Joerg Adolph observe Steidl as he travels the world to meet and collaborate with such renowned photographers as Joel Sternfeld, Jeff Wall, and Ed Ruscha, working tirelessly to present their work in beautifully created books. Providing an insightful look at the way Steidl's printing press operates in Goettingen, Germany, HOW TO MAKE a BOOK also presents Steidl as a dynamic entrepreneur with an uncompromising passion for the craft of bookmaking.

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## Customer Reviews

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    How to Take a Trip with Steidl
  

*by N***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2014*

I have seen this documentary three times and will no doubt watch it again.  It was very difficult for me even to choose the number of stars to give it.  One of the two previous reviews loved it and one said it was superficial.  In a way I agree with both.  Most of it has to do with Steidl going on various business trips to discuss current projects with photographers.  The problem is that you don't get to learn much in the process either about how to make a book with Steidl or about who the photographers are and why doing their books is important.  It's almost as if there are two unfinished documentaries going at once.  And yet, and yet...  Steidl's passion and integrity come through sufficiently, and are sufficiently compelling, that I keep going back to take the trip.  In these days when bottom-line ignoramuses, who probably don't even read books, turn out truly squalid editions of works that deserve the utmost respect, I could not agree more with Steidl's philosophy of the book, with the importance of its heft and smell and the feel of the pages and the quality of the images and the lettering.  In fact, I wish it were a scratch-and-sniff documentary so that I'd get to share all the ink smells he keeps mentioning.  So, yes, there are problems with the production--mostly that there isn't enough of it.  But if you love books, you will love it anyway, and you will certainly develop an affectionate respect for Mr. Steidl's magnificent obsession.

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    A ,MOVIE ABOUT A MAN  IN A TINYINY GERMAN VILLAGE WHO PUBLISHES FOR BOTH FAMOUS AND SOME NOT-SO FAMOUS AUTHORS
  

*by A***) on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2015*

Thinking it would interest me, wife borrowed a copy of this documentary from  our local public library.It  might be considered boring except to  publishers or book-binders like me and, although there isn't  much about the book-binding aspect of specialty publishing, Gerhard Steidl is such an engaging character and the film is so well done I feel it's well worth watching from start to finish by anyone and is why I wanted to own a copyIt's ,mostly in English, often sprinkled with German (sometimes with subtitling and sometimes without) which I didn't find an impediment to my enjoyment.

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    Great insight into the life and mind of Steidl
  

*by S***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 6, 2019*

If, like me, you're a big fan of Steidl's books, then this movie is quite entertaining. You get to meet several artists, including the great Robert Frank, and see their artistic journey with Steidl.

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