Flower Portraits: the life cycle of beauty - Hardcover

Tenneson, Joyce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821228536 ISBN 13: 9780821228531

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, 2003

Synopsis

Following the success of her book of portraits, "Wise Women", photographer Joyce Tenneson turns her lens to the life of flowers. In this series of pictures, Tenneson records the often unseen and overlooked later phases in a plant's life and finds exquisite beauty in their blossoming and gradual decline. These stunning portraits celebrate the life cycle and allow the reader to appreciate flowers in a new way, as well as contemplate the poignancy, fragility and continual beauty of life itself. Tenneson's photographs follow the long tradition of the botanical illustrations of the 18th and 19th centuries as well as photographic masters such as Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe and Irving Penn. Just as "Wise Women" chronicled the energy, vitality and beauty of older women, "Flower Portraits" gives a compelling look at the radiant individual metamorphosis of flowers in the later stages of their lives.

About this title

Review:

"What Tenneson has discovered and captured in her images for more than a decade and a half is female strength and spirituality."

About the Author:

JOYCE TENNESON's work has appeared in countless publications, including six books, as well as in more than 150 galleries, museums and exhibits worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0821228536
• ISBN 13: 9780821228531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156