
The artist Zak Smith illustrated each page of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
The illustrations are available online at the link above- the entire project has been digitized, so every page is accessible. The scans are fairly high quality but do not allow zooming or any up-close inspection. Almost no metadata are available for the images; they are organized in order by book (the novel consists of 4 books) and are titled with excerpts from each page, although it is not clear whether or not these are the titles of the actual pieces. Looking at the source html for the pages reveals that the images are jpegs and are scanned at 768 x 553 as far as sizing goes. The scans are fairly high quality and allow inspection of the media used. They reveal the hand of the artist and looking at the images online in order is interesting as a standin for the experience of viewing them in a gallery, although the lack of information about each image calls into question the purpose of the digitization project.
The images are archived at The Modern Word although the artist's individual web page links to them along with link to his gallery. The collection seems to have been digitized primarily for access purposes and the level of quality control exercised is questionable.
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