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"Perhaps the most recognized and widely collected photographer of botanical studies working today, Ron van Dongen's recent shift to color work was documented in our previous monograph, 'Effusus', which was published in 2005 and has since sold out. We are pleased to announce his follow-up book, 'Aurora', presenting 33 gorgeous new plates printed--as with all of his Nazraeli Press monographs--in an oversized format bound in Japanese cloth. This new work adds to the Dutch photographer's long and skilled study of flora in its many incarnations"--Publisher's description.
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Effusus
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"Our fifth monograph on Ron van Dongen, 'Effusus' documents the artist’s recent shift to color photography. While the earliest work reproduced in this book dates from 1997, the vast majority of plates were made during the past two years. At the urging of gallerists and curators--bowled over by the early examples they had seen--van Dongen has recently begun to exhibit his color work to much critical acclaim"--Publisher's description.
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Alba Nero
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"'Abla Nero' presents thirty of van Dongen's powerful and exquisite images, beautifully printed in duotone in an oversized hardcover format. In his formally seductive series of botanical studies, van Dongen unearths floral secrets and prickly symbols of our alternately nurturing and perilous relationship with nature. He shows us flowers as resourceful and delicate, decorative and essential, sacred and sensual, life force and death knell--and always suggestive of all that is beyond our tethered reach. Plucked from their backyard habitat and brought indoors, these dazzling arums, anemones and papavers are isolated or paired for the camera as emblems of a postmodern struggle between nature's vagabond wilderness and culture's manipulation of its blithe freedom"--Publisher's description.
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"The focal point of van Dongen’s lens ranges from the mouth-wateringly perfect bunch of grapes, to the glorious exuberance of flowers in full bloom and the daintier, more demure floral specimens. He shows us that plants are delicate and resourceful, decorative and essential, and temptingly tactile while commanding respect. But perhaps above all, he presents them as things of great beauty to linger over and enjoy"--Publisher's description.
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Proof
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"Anthropomorphism has long been a trademark of van Dongen's work. However, what distinguishes the pictures assembled in 'Proof' is their illustration of the unexpected and breathtaking effect of time on untreated master proofs. Though some of these Polaroid images are no older than a few years, they all seem to have been pulled from an exquisite, moldering time capsule. Unstable chemicals have randomly burned, flashed and splashed his fine images. The result is spellbinding. Perky blooms and sensual bouquets simultaneously relay a wisdom of age and mortality"--Publisher's description.
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Paul Outerbridge : new color photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955
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