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The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones By Sean s**ton, Robert Flynn
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- The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones
- ISBN
- 9780500544631
- Book Title
- Plant Kingdom of Charles Jones
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Photography, Philosophy
- Topic
- Individual Photographers / General, Aesthetics, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Width
- 6.8 in
- Item Weight
- 18.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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In 1981, at Bermondsey Market in London, Sean Sexton, the Irish-born photographic collector, chanced upon the gelatin silver prints of photographer Charles Jones. Dating from the turn of the century, these beguiling studio "portraits" of tulips and sunflowers, onions and turnips, plums and pears are skillfully executed and startling in their originality. Shot as close-ups, with long exposure and spare composition, the works anticipate by decades the later achievements of modernist masters. This volume presents Jones's photography in sections devoted to vegetables, flowers, and fruit, with captions taken from Jones's own identifications, written by hand on the back of the prints. Renowned writer and restaurateur Alice Waters describes the simple beauty of the photographs in the preface. Robert Flynn Johnson contextualizes the work in the still life tradition and pieces together the fragmentary evidence about the life of this 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. The perfect antidote to appetites jaded by processed foods and late twentieth-century consumerism, the legacy of Charles Jones is a reminder of the bountiful riches of nature.
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500544638
ISBN-13
9780500544631
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038305425
Product Key Features
Book Title
Plant Kingdom of Charles Jones
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Photographers / General, Aesthetics, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography, Philosophy
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tr724
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In 1981, photo historian Sexton came across a stash of beautiful gelatin silver prints of fruits, vegetables, and other plants at a London antiques market. The photos were the work of a local gardener, Charles Jones (1866-1959), produced around the beginning of the 20th century. Johnson contextualizes the photography and imparts what information he can about the man who 'left no notes or diaries to explain why he photographed the plants he saw every day.' This handsomely illustrated volume features a preface by writer and restaurateur Alice Waters., [Charles Jones's] pictures are not only lush and nearly edible, they are surprisingly, severely modern in appearance-they resemble the work of Karl Blossfeldt, and anticipate that of Irving Penn. Do I need to mention that each specimen appears to represent the very apex of its species?
Copyright Date
2016
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Lccn
2016-931268
Dewey Decimal
778.934
Dewey Edition
23
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