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Image of the week: Tim White

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Adam Rowe
May 15, 2021
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Tim White’s 1969 cover art for ‘The Left Hand of Darkness,’ by Ursula K. Le Guin was a big hit this week:

It’s actually just half of the wraparound cover, though. On the full image, you can see how Tim White composed the scene in order to make it easy to split down the middle with a book spine: The tree already divides the scene up to guide to the eye to…

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