Paper Tiger's Tim White collections
   The Science Fiction And Fantasy World Of Tim White
   Chiaroscuro
                                             (1981/1988 - Paper Tiger)

The Science Fiction And Fantasy World Of Tim White (1981) This is the first of two volumes released by Paper Tiger focusing on Tim White and his SF & Fantasy work (the book's first edition was from the publishers New English Library). It scores particularly well, mostly featuring large reproductions, usually uncluttered by other images (and, two-thirds of time, backgrounded in black or light-grey). Out of the book's 144 pages, 131 do exactly that - note that 62 of those pages are utilized for 31 images that are larger than a single page (with only three flunking out completely with the center distortion). And there are eight more pages that *do* present multiple images together. Most paintings are from covers of genre book releases. There is an excellent image index in the back that details to what use the work was put, with title, author, publisher, release-year and original's metric dimensions. The artist's voice is 'heard' in a number of places, relaying anecdotes associated with the pieces.

Chiaroscuro (1988) This is another 144-page volume, ranking after SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WORLD OF TIM WHITE that had been released years beforehand. It repeats only a single image from that earlier & better collection. There are 44 pages utilized here to present another 22 large reproductions that spread over the book's gutter - all of which admirably do so without failing miserably due to mis-negotiating the central distortion. Then 80 more pages themselves display a full-page reproduction (most once more being backgrounded by black or light-grey), and then there are seven more pages that have two or three images gathered together. There's a two-page alphabetical index to the images in the back (excluding the handful of exhibited drawings) providing title, publisher and creation-year for each. Same genre split to be found - a large selection of Isaac Asimov SF cover art is represented here, but conversely, the same could be said of Roger Zelazny's fantasy books.