Library of Congress Reading Room

This book contains one of Max Lyons' extremely high resolution photographs (Washington's Library of Congress Reading Room), that he created by stitching together hundreds of individual photographs to create an extremely high resolution, seamless final image. <P>But how can an image that can be printed at 10 feet wide be presented in a book? The answer is that each page in the book shows a small region of the complete full-sized, stitched image. The concept is similar to that of a street atlas, where each page displays a small region of a larger map, and each page connects with other pages in the book. <P>Using two copies of this book (images are printed on both sides of the page), it is possible to remove the pages, and assemble a wall sized montage of the full image, measuring about 9 feet wide by 7 feet tall.