Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones
by Jones, Charles; Sexton, Sean, and Johnson, Robert Flynn (Text by), and Waters, Alice (Preface by)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0765108364
- ISBN 13
- 9780765108364
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About This Item
New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1998. Cloth, 128 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Charles Jones is likely to remain forever a mysterious figure. We shall probably never know exactly how and why he came so obsessively and so brilliantly to photograph the plants he encountered in everyday life at the turn of the century. Yet Charles Jones did not photograph his vegetables, fruits, and flowers within nature. On the contrary, he isolated his works against neutral backgrounds - beguiling studio 'portraits' of beans and onions, squashes and turnips, tulips and sunflowers, plums and pears. His techniques - close-up viewpoint, long exposure, and spare composition - anticipate by decades the later achievements of modernist masters, for here was an 'outsider' genius, who was saved from obscurity only by the photographic collector Sean Sexton's chance discovery of his surviving prints in a London market. The photographs themselves are Jones' only statement. He left no notes, diaries, or writings to explain his reasons for the creation of such a prodigious and concentrated body of work, superbly reproduced in this volume. Revealing art in nature, Jones' images have a wider significance in the history of both photography and still-life, explored and explained here by Robert Flynn Johnson." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Vegetables; Flowers; Fruit.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 080603
- Title
- Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones
- Author
- Jones, Charles; Sexton, Sean, and Johnson, Robert Flynn (Text by), and Waters, Alice (Preface by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0765108364
- ISBN 13
- 9780765108364
- Publisher
- Smithmark Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Photography / Individual Photographer; European / British & Irish; Genre & Subject / Botanical; Photography / Subjects & Themes / Still-Life;
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