Overview

Flora Photographica is a striking and extravagantly designed album that celebrates 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 that acuity of vision which only the most sensitive 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 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 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 introduction and commentaries by the acclaimed photo-historian William A. Ewing. But, above all, here are flowers as we have never seen them before, an unparalleled display to marvel at, contemplate and enjoy.

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Author:   William A. Ewing
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 24.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 30.00cm
Weight:   1.340kg
ISBN:  

9780500283486

ISBN 10:   0500283486
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 September 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'Collections like this only come along once in a blue moon. My advice is: buy two, one to keep and one to give away to your lover, best friend, or whoever you consider worthy' - Shetland Times 'Magnificent' - Nature 'Extremely well presented, researched and produced ... a must' - World of Interiors 'The most exquisite study of form and texture ... stunning' - R.A. Magazine

'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

Author Information

William A. Ewing is an author, lecturer, curator of photography and museum director. Director of the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne from 1996 to 2010, his many publications on photography include The Body, Arnold Newman: Masterclass, Landmark and Lois Greenfield: Moving Still.

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