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Flying Flowers: The Beauty Of The Butterfly

Door Rick Sammon

Categorie
Vlinders
Boeknummer
#334472-KM24
Titel
Flying Flowers: The Beauty Of The Butterfly
Auteur
Sammon, Rick
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, NY : Welcome Books
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
1932183272
ISBN13
9781932183276
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, oblong, circa 24x36cm.
Samenvatting
Flying Flowers is an exquisite collection of intimate and up-close images of living butterflies by renowned nature photographer Rick Sammon. A mediation and celebration of one of nature's most beautiful creatures, Flying Flowers takes the reader on a visual journey into the miracle of transformation. The butterfly, with its amazing metamorphosis from a crawling caterpillar into a vivid and graceful winged creature, symbolizes the infinite potential within every living creature to evolve: from darkness into light, ugliness into beauty, lethargy into activity. The life of a butterfly is a coming of age story in the most profound sense. As such an exotic metaphor for transcendence and renewal, the butterfly has been celebrated in art, literature, dance, fashion, myth, and spirituality through... (Lees verder)out history and in cultures around the world.

Using groundbreaking digital photography, Sammon offers us a new view of these delicate insects in their natural habitat. "The ability to see every shot immediately on my camera's LCD monitor allowed me to make critical exposure and lighting adjustments on site," explains Sammon. "That was of the utmost importance, due to subject movement, changing lighting conditions and the reflectivity of some of the butterflies."

The result of over a year's work on the subject, these luminous portraits come together in Flying Flowers like a Technicolor bouquet. From Mourning Cloaks to Hummingbird Moths, dozens of species are represented and identified with brief informational captions. Photographed in extreme close-up and stunning detail during all stages of life-emerging from the cocoon, taking flight, migrating in mass, or simply perched momentarily on a bloom or branch-Sammon's butterflies flutter across the page in a mesmerizing kaleidoscope of wings eyes, legs, and antennae.
Pagina's
98
Conditie
Goed — Foxed on verso dust jacket.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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