We established our publishing arm, Ormond Yard Press, in order to bring you the bigger picture, literally.
We do this through publishing a carefully curated series of elegant, ultra-large format limited edition books, each one focusing on a key moment or personality in the history of popular culture, and showcasing the work of a photographer at the very top of his or her profession. The physical size of our books may be large (18 x 24 inches when closed, 36 x 24 inches when open) but the edition sizes are reassuringly low.
Our books are like no books you will have seen before: much larger than traditional coffee table volumes, they are slim and elegant at the same time. Layouts and presentations are designed to let images shine, in a clean, uncluttered style. Less is definitely more. Presented in a handsome slipcase, each book looks like a work of art you could hang on your wall. And actually, you can, as we have developed a slide in/slide out transparent acrylic display unit for you to do just that.
Neil Young’s comment on the future of books in Waging Heavy Peace pretty much sums up what Ormond Yard Press is all about: “Things are changing. I have faith that there is a place for tactile art like physical books and album covers and think that we will settle into something new, but recognisable. I do think that the future for books is in the over-the-top quality printing, paper, photography, and binding. The high price of that quality may enable the survival of the printed and bound hardcover book. “
The Big Book of Birds of Britain: John d Green
The Big Book of Birds of Britain, a sequel to John d Green's classic 1967 Birds of Britain book, is being published in a staggering large format limited edition. This new volume will contain a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, along with an entirely new species of bird, not included in the original book.
Born To Run Revisited – photographs by Eric Meola
Eric Meola created one of the most recognisable images in rock 'n' roll: the 1975 photograph of Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons that appeared on the cover of Born to Run.
I saw Nick Drake – photographs by Keith Morris
Keith Morris’ archive is the single most important source of photographs of Nick Drake, with Keith photographing Nick Drake for all three of his albums over a two and a half year period from April 1969 to November 1971.
Sticky Fingers – The Lost Session: photographs by Peter Webb
Features the complete surviving archive of black and white and colour photographs from Peter Webb's 1971 session with the Rolling Stones.
Can You See Me?: Jimi Hendrix by Donald Silverstein – The Unseen Archives
Donald Silverstein’s 1967 session is the great undiscovered Jimi Hendrix archive, and this book celebrates these images in glorious ultra-large format.
WOW! : Kate Bush by Gered Mankowitz
WOW! features the very best work from Gered Mankowitz’s incredible 1978 / 1979 archive of Kate Bush photographs, with the majority of photographs previously unpublished. Each limited edition copy is personally signed by Gered Mankowitz.
Rolling Thunder: Photographs by Ken Regan
Contains the very best of Ken Regan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue photographs of Bob Dylan - a tour on which he was official photographer.
Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz
Backstage is the closest you can get to being backstage in the room with The Rolling Stones between 1965 and 1967.
Hang your book on your wall
Make no mistake, these are big books, and we wanted to give you some different display options. Of course you can put it on your coffee table or (big) bookshelf, but we felt it deserved something a bit special. With each of our books, we took a conscious decision to keep the covers free of text, so that nothing would detract from the power of the chosen front and back cover images. That notion gave rise to the idea of this display unit – because it means you can, should you choose to, display your book just like a piece of art on the wall.
Constructed from 5mm clear acrylic, this is a solid, simple and practical way to display your book on your wall in its slipcase. It measures 18.5 inches (w) x 25 inches (h) x 1.5 inches (d). That’s approximately 47cm x 64cm x 4cm. It has curved edges, and a split baton hanging system on the reverse. Acrylic feet at the bottom ensures that it hangs parallel to the wall. It is a nice, elegant, simple, solid piece of work.
It is open sided on the left and right, allowing you to slide your book (and please read ‘book’ as ‘book inside the slipcase’ here) in and out whenever you want to look at the contents. You also have the flexibility to show the front or the back of the book and flip it over if you feel like a change of view.
The photograph alongside shows a copy of Eric Meola’s Born To Run Revisited sitting snugly inside a display unit.
Display units are in a standard size and any of our large format 18 x 24 inch books will fit inside one. You can buy one here.
