- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Damiani (1 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 8889431156
- ISBN-13: 978-8889431153
- Product Dimensions: 35.4 x 26 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 812,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Product Description
When fall's chill or winter's storms keep you in, plant yourself in front of the fireplace with this book of Andrea Jones's botanical photographs and enjoy the eternal spring. In fact, not even spring's arrival will give you these views, as you travel the globe with one of the world's foremost photographers of plant life. In some photographs, Jones' close-ups of seeds, flowers, trees, leaves, grasses, berries, and stalks revel in intimate detail that seems too precise to be real. In others, the living plants takes on abstract qualities via their sculptural variety and extraordinary systems and symmetry. Each chapter of "Plantworlds" is devoted to a particular continent and the plants native to that region. Influenced by artists such as Arthur Harry Church and Georgia O'Keeffe, Jones brings both a passion and an exacting eye to the natural world, Jones has produced an oeuvre that will enlighten, entertain and inform. A perfect gift for a gardener, naturalist or any lover of photography.
About the Author
Andrea Jones is one of the world's leading garden photographers. Based in Scotland, her many assignments have taken her all over the world, for magazines and newspapers, including Gardens Illustrated, Garden Design (USA), House and Garden, Country Living, The Saturday Telegraph, Guardian Weekend and the National Geographic. In addition to her work for the press she has illustrated a number of books - Bold Plants and Grasses and Bamboos both by Noel Kingsbury (1999), Hardscape by Ann-Marie Powell (2001), Fragrant Gardening by Steve and Val Bradley (2003) and Great Gardens of America by Tim Richardson (2010).
Mark Fletcher is a writer, editor and publisher. He is the author of Islands: Contemporary Architecture on Water (2010).
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Plantworlds,
This review is from: Plantworlds (Collana) (Hardcover)
A sumptuous production. Large scale colour photographs throughout this beautifully produced book make for luxurious viewing, and are almost overpowering in their intensity. Not a book to flick through, but to appreciate just a few images at a time. Each chapter is devoted to a world region and is introduced with a short essay by a plant enthusiast from that region. These act as sorbet would between courses at dinner, readying the eye for more delights. A book for photographers and artists as well as plant lovers. Highly recommended!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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plants at their best,
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This review is from: Plantworlds (Collana) (Hardcover)
A great Christmas book! The pictures are amazing and the production as good as I have seen on a plant/gardening book. Jones's photos are quite something and helpful captions at the back of the book tell you about theplant itself. I bought this book as a present for a friend and then decided to keep a copy for myself as well.
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