Flora Photographica

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MASTERPIECES OF FLOWER PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 1 835 TO THE PRESENT
LORA OTOGRAPHICA
William A. Ewing
tORAC^/HOTOGRAPHICA is a bouquet, 0 striking and extravagantly designed album of images which celebrote the glorious beauty and pathos of flowers in all their multifarious forms. In these pages flowers speak to us with a greater intensity and more subtle modulation than even in nature itself. For each bloom shown here has been observed with that acuity of vision which only the most sensitive of artist-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 gay, open-air profusion of poppies; Cunningham's magnolia, richly fertile and lush; Man Ray's surreal yet pure colla lilly; Chris Enos's dying poinsettia, its colours curdling... Tovább

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MASTERPIECES OF FLOWER PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 1 835 TO THE PRESENT
LORA OTOGRAPHICA
William A. Ewing
tORAC^/HOTOGRAPHICA is a bouquet, 0 striking and extravagantly designed album of images which celebrote the glorious beauty and pathos of flowers in all their multifarious forms. In these pages flowers speak to us with a greater intensity and more subtle modulation than even in nature itself. For each bloom shown here has been observed with that acuity of vision which only the most sensitive of artist-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 gay, open-air profusion of poppies; Cunningham's magnolia, richly fertile and lush; Man Ray's surreal yet pure colla lilly; Chris Enos's dying poinsettia, its colours curdling in decay.
Roses and irises, zinnias and eglantines, orchids and camellias - all submit to the photographer's gaze, in opulent still-lifes, in spore 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 medio, from photography's beginnings up to the present day. Full details of the techniques and processes used are elucidated in the comrrientaries and introduction by photo-historian William A. Ewing. But, above all, here ore flowers as we hove never seen them before, an unparalleled display to marvel at, contemplate and enjoy.
With 215 illustrations, 56 in colour and 127 in duotone Vissza