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Flower Andrew Zuckerman
Andrew Zuckerman
In various artistic traditions, flowers have figured as ornament, allegory, and vehicles for exploring color, light, and technique. Substituted for the most fundamental themes—death, sex, the spiritual realm— they abound by virtue of their physical beauty and diversity, but also due to their symbolic implications, ritualistic and medicinal applications, and their proximity to decay. Dispensing with romanticism and narrative associations, Andrew Zuckerman’s Flower is predicated on contemporizing this seemingly exhausted terrain. Photographing over one hundred species in his signature luminous white space, he aims, as always, to translate the essential nature of his subjects and unearth qualities that have previously escaped scrutiny. With characteristic minimalism, Zuckerman creates an atmosphere of absolute clarity to reveal each flower on its own terms. In the blank field of pure white light, in exacting definition, they appear alternately alien, comestible, and anatomical. Every aspect is made explicit. What one notices immediately are the astonishing gradations of color and variations of form—some sculptural, others almost viscous—followed by boundless textural nuance. The effect of Zuckerman’s precision is at once taxonomically specific and startlingly lovely. The images contained within transcend still-life. These are not just flowers, but flowers in a specific time and place, responding to the pull of light, gravity and water. At close range, they reveal a kind of topography for survival. Zuckerman’s photographs expose the mechanisms beneath the surface—vascular, respiratory, reproductive—the structural motivations for such arresting physical beauty. Their architectures communicate viability. These are living, breathing organisms, and taken as a whole, one can’t help but consider flower as a verb. Specifications:
Flower by Andrew Zuckerman US $75 12” x 12”, 300 pages 150 full-color illustrations Clothbound with jacket ISBN 978-1-4521-1216-9 Chronicle territory rights granted for Flower Exclusive: North America Non-exclusive: Rest of world (including UK), excluding Asia, Latin America. Specifically excluding: South America, South Africa, Germany, Australia and New Zealand Photography: Andrew Zuckerman Publication month: December 2012
: D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO BU PY T I O U TR C T A IS O D N R FO
Flower
: D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO BU PY T I O U TR C T A IS O D N R FO
: D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO BU PY T I O U TR C T A IS O D N R FO
: D D TE E N H IZ IO IG R T R HO BU PY T I O U TR C T A IS O D N R FO
Andrew Zuckerman is a New York-based photographer, author, and film maker. His work has
been commissioned extensively for many leading international brands and has received many awards, including D&AD, One Show, BDA, and multiple annuals. His first film, High Falls, premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2007 before going on to win for best short narrative at the Woodstock Film Festival. Flower is his fifth photography book. Creature, a portrait series of animals, was released worldwide in November 2007 to critical acclaim. Bird was a visual study of birds from the rarest to the most common. Wisdom and Music were both books, films, and traveling exhibitions. For Wisdom, Andrew traveled the globe to photograph and interview the world’s most eminent elders, from Judi Dench to Nelson Mandela, creating a comprehensive account of their perspectives on life. For Music, Andrew interviewed over fifty distinguished artists, composers, producers, and performers.
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Artwork shown is concept only and subject to change. All images © Andrew Zuckerman