
Blossom
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 9783858816214
- Specifications
- Hardcover
128 pages
Some ninety color plates
Two essays on symbolism and the history of the floral still life
For more than two decades this photographer has focused her eye on flowers, zooming in on calyxes, pistils, and leaf veins to create exuberant feasts of color. While celebrating the wide variety of shapes and sizes that nature and human cultivation have brought, she is no less fascinated by the process of decay: as the flowers fade, wilt, and wither, she transforms them under water into images of strange, compelling beauty, combining delicate beauty with a stirring memento mori.