- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson; New edition edition (Sep 24 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0500283486
- ISBN-13: 978-0500283486
- Product Dimensions: 30.3 x 24.8 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #615,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Extraordinary... a magnificent collection' - Anna Pavord, The Observer 'The most exquisite study of form and texture... stunning' - R.A. Magazine 'Superlative pictures by photographers from Talbot to Robert Mapplethorpe' - New Scientist 'Extremely well presented, researched and produced... a must' - The World of Interiors 'Magnificent' - Nature
Book Description
Flora Photographica is a bouquet, a striking and extravagantly designed album of images that celebrate the beauty and pathos of flowers in all their forms. In these pages flowers speak to us with a greater intensity and more subtle modulation than in nature itself. For each bloom shown here has been observed with an acuity of vision that only the most sensitive of photographers can bring to bear.
What we see is both reality and revelation. The artist's eye decodes the flower's message and sharpens its beauty. Here are Mapplethorpe's tulips, half-metal, half-living creatures; Steichen's delphiniums, preserved in an everlasting summery perfection of blues and pinks; Atget's open-air profusion of poppies; Cunningham's magnolia, richly fertile and lush; Man Ray's surreal yet pure calla lily; Chris Enos's dying poinsettia, its colors curdling in decay.
Roses and irises, zinnias and eglantines, orchids and camellias—all submit to the photographer's gaze, in opulent still-lifes, in spare renderings of a single sprig, in elegant anatomies, and as emblems of personality in portraiture and nude studies. These are masterpieces of photographic art in an astonishing range of media, from photography's beginnings up to the present day. Full details of the techniques and processes used are elucidated in the commentaries and introduction. But, above all, here are flowers as we have never seen them before, an unparalleled display to marvel at, contemplate, and enjoy. 215 photographs, 56 in color.
Some of the photographers included are: Ansel Adams &149; Eugene Atget &149; Hippolyte Bayard &149; Cecil Beaton &149; Julia Margaret Cameron &149; William Henry Fox Talbot &149; Lee Friedlander &149; Yasuhiro Ishimoto &149; André Kertész &149; Robert Mapplethorpe &149; Sheila Metzner &149; Joel Meyerowitz &149; Duane Michals &149; Paul Outerbridge &149; George Platt Lynes &149; Lucas Samaras &149; Edwin Smith &149; Edward Steichen &149; Josef Sudek
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beautiful pictures, Feb 10 2012
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Very nice book. The pictures are really nice. Shipping was fast. Well packed. Good range of photos and types of different items with flowers. Black and white and color are used to the advantage of the flower.
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