“This is about staying focused on what makes a coffee-table book enjoyable,” Neil White says of Memphians (from White’s company, Nautilus Publishing, out of Taylor, Mississippi).
White, who is also the book’s creative director, is referring to his coffee-table-sized book of prominent (and some not so prominent but certainly memorable) Memphians who’ve made their mark in the city and across the country and the globe.
“We are strictly people,” White says about the idea behind Memphians, which is first and foremost a picture book with accompanying text from a team of contributing writers. “Other coffee-table books have focused on the corporations, the architecture, the scenery of a region.
“We’ve tried to find people who have done something no one else in the world has done. Memphis may not have the beauty of Lake Tahoe or the economy of Atlanta, but in spite of that — or maybe because of it — Memphians are amazing.”
