Flower Portraits: The Life Cycle of Beauty

By Joyce Tenneson

Following the success of her book of portraits, "Wise Women", photographer Joyce Tenneson turns her lens to the life of flowers. In this series of pictures, Tenneson records the often unseen and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821228536
• ISBN13: 9780821228531
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 2.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.1" x 12.5"

Customer Reviews

Exquisite, sensual, and life-affirming

I absolutely love this book! Joyce Tenneson has captured the ephemeral and exquisite cycle of life in these sepia-toned photos. Each photograph is on a black background, bringing the "subjects" into sharp relief, allowing the viewer to examine in delicate detail the life cycle of flowers, from young bud to mature blossom, and on to dried yet beautiful perfection... and often, once again on to new life in the form of seed... a poignant analogy to the cycle of human existence. I bought this book because of its beauty, because it made me feel inspired to create beauty myself, and because it is simply very sensual and life-affirming.

Different in a very good way

Not just pretty pictures in this terrific book, but a deep insight and understanding of flowers and photos. I saw several of these photos in an exhibition at a gallery in Bethesd, MD and fell in love with the work by this master photographer. I bought the book and am now saving my pennies to buy a photo!

Seeing flowers in a brand new way

What makes a great photographer? In the case of Tenneson, it has always been her own unique style, which translates so well across the many books and works that she has done over the years - ending in last year's best selling "Wise Women." So when Tenneson focused her considerable skills on the world of flowers, it's no surprise that she discovers that the beauty of a dying or dead flower, in its own unique decay, often delivers beautiful new insights - a Tennesonian insight - into the world of flowers. This is a photography book for people who not only like flowers, but a great photography book - period.