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Fashion photographer Nick Knight shows his love for the pressed flower and plant collection of the Museum of Natural History of London in Flora. Each specimen is carefully chosen and photographed. Deciding between beautiful plants was quite a task for Knight: "The herbarium ... contains over six million samples. It has taken over three and a half years to discover plants for this book. Thousands were taken out for consideration.... I would look forward to each day of searching enormously." The 46 full-color plates pop so vividly from the white backgrounds that it's almost as if there were actual pressed flowers between the pages. The specimens are graceful, geometric, twisted, or spindly with colorful petals, leaves, and seeds. In their flattened arrangements, they look otherworldly, like sea creatures or insects frozen in time. The book includes a detailed commentary of the various flora and fauna written by botanical curator Sandra Knapp. She offers great information, including the history and human uses of the various flowers and plants along with the relationships between different plant species. There is a real energy to her descriptions--the flora become a cast of characters, each with personality and fascinating quirks that only nature can provide. --J.P. Cohen
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Nick Knight rose to prominence with his daring fashion photography and advertising campaigns. His widely admired photo-graphic celebration (in collaboration with fashion designer Alexander McQueen) of people with physical disabilities for the English magazine Dazed & Confused and his images of the rock star Björk for the CD Homogenic have focused new attention on this important British photographer.
Sandra Knapp is curator in the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum, London.
Peter Saville has designed numerous record and CD covers, worked for the Pompidou Center, was house designer for the Whitechapel Gallery, and has provided design and art direction for various fashion houses and music companies.
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- PublisherSchirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 3888142385
- ISBN 13 9783888142383
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Neu. 1. Auflage. GARANTIERT neues Verlagsexemplar . - - - 80 S. mit 46 ganzseitigen Farbtafeln (Novaspace plates) . Die Schönheit getrockneter Pflanzen, die der junge britische Photograph NICK KNIGHT bei einem seiner Streifzüge im Herbarium , der "Bibliothek der gepreßten Blumen" , des National History Museum in London entdeckte, begeisterte ihn derart, dass er diesen Blumen einen großen Bildband, Format 37 x 23,5 cm, widmete : Der Zauber ihrer fragilen Transparenz und ihre subtile Farbigkeit schlugen Nick Knight mehr als dreieinhalb Jahre in Bann : Solange sollte es dauern, bis er aus den über sechs Millionen Pflanzen des Herbariums seine Auswahl getroffen hatte tausende wurden in Erwägung gezogen, einige hundert photographiert und schließlich die sechsundvierzig schönsten Exemplare für diese Buch ausgewählt . Mit Texten von Sandra Knapp . Englisc h . Gebunden . Schutzumschlag . S o f o r t i g e r Versand eines neuen , eingeschweißten Verlagexemplares . Seller Inventory # A111130
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