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The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones

Door Sean Sexton

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#319743-KO3
Titel	The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones
Auteur	Sexton, Sean
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Thames and Hudson
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	0500542228
ISBN13	9780500542224
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt brown boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, richly illustrated with b/w photographs,
Samenvatting	In 1981, at Bermondsey Market in London, Sean Sexton, the Irish born photographic collector, chanced upon the gelatin silver prints of Charles Jones. Dating from the turn of the century, these beguiling studio portraits of tulips and sunflowers, onions and turnips, plums and pears display both astonishing skill and startling originality. Their close-up viewpoint, long exposure and spare composition anticipates by decades the later achievements of modernist masters. This volume presents his work in sections devoted successively to vegetables, flowers and fruit, with captions taken from Jones's own identification, written by hand on the back of the prints. Robert Flynn Johnson places the work in the tradition of still life and pieces together the fragmentary evidence about the life of this... (Lees verder) mysterious figure, who trained as a gardener and worked on a number of private estates, but who left no notes or diaries to explain why he photographed the plants he saw every day. Writer and restauranteur Alice Waters describes the simply beauty of the photographs in the preface. The perfect antidote to appetites jaded by processed foods and late 20th-century life, the legacy of Charles Jones is a reminder of the bountiful riches of nature.
Pagina's	128
Conditie	Goed — Foxed on verso dust jacket.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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