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The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones
Contributor(s): Sexton, Sean (Author), Johnson, Robert Flynn (Author), Waters, Alice (Preface by)
ISBN: 0500544638     ISBN-13: 9780500544631
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals
- Photography | Individual Photographers - General
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.6" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Sexton, Sean: - Sean Sexton is an Irish-born photographic collector. His previous books include The Irish: A Photohistory.Johnson, Robert Flynn: - Robert Flynn Johnson is curator emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.Waters, Alice: - Alice Waters is a writer and restaurateur.