Consists of specially bound text volume with photographs printed offset (also issued by itself, 1000 copies softbound, as "trade ed.", ISBN 1892733137), and album of selected photographs (printed as photogravures or planographs), with letterpress half title and title, contents, title leaves, signed limitation statement, and colophon. The text volume is designated "first edition"; as issued in the Deluxe and Museum editions it has no ISBN.

Photographs by Flor Garduño, Greg Gorman, Ariane Lopez-Huici, Wouter Deruytter, Philip Trager, Jerry Spagnoli, Carol Munder, Robert Stivers, Don Hong-Oai, S.J. Staniski, Dimitris Yeros, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Christopher Bucklow, Brigitte Carnochan, Julio Pimentel Maciel, and Toni Catany.

"Design by Carolyn Eckert; hand-pulled photogravures in Deluxe and Museum editions on Rives BFK by Jon Goodman Photogravure; hand-printed waterless planographs in Deluxe and Museum editions on Chinese tissue by Jeff Ryan, Everyday Artifact; letterpress printing on Zerkall Book by Michael Russem, Kat Ran Press; Deluxe binding by Peter Geraty. An art publication of Leo and Woilfe Photography, Inc. Brewster, Massachusetts."--Colophon (album, Deluxe ed.).

"This edition [of the album] is limited to 55 Museum copies numbered I-LV, 125 Deluxe copies numbered 1-125. This is copy number ..."--Limitation statement (album); signed by the photographers.

Publishers's description (from 21st Web site, Jan. 2005): "The signed and numbered Deluxe edition includes 10 hand-pulled photogravures, 6 full-color planographs [selected from the images in the text volume] and 44 additional color plates [i.e. the rest of the images in the text volume]. It is hand bound in Japanese silk and encased in a custom box. ... The signed and numbered Museum edition, in addition to the hand-bound book, includes a separate portfolio of 16 unbound and fully signed photogravures and planographs. It is hand bound in Japanese silk and Moroccan goatskin and is also encased in a custom box. ... Printed in offset, the soft-bound Trade edition includes all of the writing and the 60 images found in the above volumes."

Includes bibliographical references.