The Brief
Penguin Books are looking for a new image to feature on the cover of Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s 1952 masterpiece. Your brief is to take a photograph that both captures the spirit of the novel and fits the new Modern Classics layout.
All images must be taken on Fujifilm Professional film. Entry is free of charge and submissions are unlimited.
The competition runs from 1 November 2007 - 31 March 2008. All submissions must be made via this website, each Merit winner finalist will be asked to submit a print for final judging.
Please bear in mind that the winning image will need to fit in with this template. The book size is 198mm x 129mm.
We’ve included a Photoshop file of the cover so you can experiment with ‘dropping-in’ your chosen image.
These are some quotes about Invisible Man that may help provide some inspiration.
'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.'
From his underground cell, illuminated by 1,369 stolen light bulbs, listening to Louis Armstrong ‘bend that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound’, Ellison’s unnamed narrator tells the story of invisibility…
‘…I recall the sudden arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass — gay-welling, far floating, fluent, spontaneous…’
‘I could feel the words forming themselves, slowly falling into place. The light seemed to boil opalescently, like liquid soap shaken gently in a bottle.’
‘Was this all that would be recorded? Was this the only history of the times, a mood blared by trumpets, trombones, saxophones and drums, a song with turgid, inadequate words? My mind flowed … I walked in feverish isolation.’
Impassioned, lyrical, angry and visceral, Invisible Man goes beyond the compelling story of an individual to evoke the lives of millions of African-Americans with an urgency that has potent relevance today.
‘In an extraordinary imaginative leap, [Ellison] hit upon a single word for the different yet shared condition of African Americans, Americans, and, for that matter, the human individual in the twentieth century, and beyond’ – John Callahan
Invisible Man is available to buy direct from Penguin at www.penguin.co.uk
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