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Title: Le Notre's Gardens by Eric Haskell, Eric T. Haskell, Michael Kenna ISBN: 0-9630785-3-4 Publisher: Ram Publications Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gardens
Comment: Exceptional photographs of well-known places. An gardnerer's heaven, no mole-hills even.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautifully elusive garden images
Comment: While the text essays in this book are a bit dry, the photographic reproductions are of top notch quality. Kenna's photographs are beautifully elusive, sometimes printed quite dark, yet remain salient throughout. I found myself wondering how the images looked on the contact sheets, straight, with no darkroom manipulations. This book serves as a great example of what you can do in the darkroom to bring out a more poignant image than you actually shot at the location. It should be required for anyone who works with black and white photography in the darkroom; not because you will gleen any certain tips or techiques but because you will study the final results and perhaps wonder how they were achieved.
As a photographer, this book will remain in my photo book collection and it is Kenna's strongest work to date.
Rating: 5
Summary: MAGNIFICENT MAGIC
Comment: I am very lucky indeed to have been able to see many of Michael Kenna's photographs at live exhibitions, both in Washington, D.C. and in New York City. Any art book is a "poor" substitution for the real thing, but there are some books that can give you true, beautiful examples of specific art works that then, hopefully, can someday be seen live. Kenna is a British photographer, in his 50's, who now lives in San Francisco....and seems to concentrate, in large part, on landscapes as his subjects. His images in this book are of the gardens created by Andre Le Notre, "the most important garden designer of the court of Louis XIV." In approximately 6o plates on 80 pages, we are taken to 10 different locations in France including the Tuileries in Paris and Versailles and Fontainebleau. The photographs are nothing short of breathtaking, obviously taken at dawn or dusk when the natural light is almost unreal. These images evoke mysterious, art movie settings---one almost expects a stranger to appear from one of the designed paths or pools or from behind one of the symmetrical trees or shrubs. All of it: the photographs, the accompanying essay, the way the book is put together with obvious care and love is magnificent magic.
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Title: Andre Le Notre : Gardener to the Sun King by Erik Orsenna, Moishe Black ISBN: 0807614874 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: New England Days (An Imago Mundi Book) by Paul Caponigro, Aprile Gallant ISBN: 1567922163 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing by Michael Kenna ISBN: 0614064775 Publisher: Ram Publications Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Edward and Brett Weston: Dune by Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Kurt Markus, Charis Wilson, John Woods ISBN: 0967732123 Publisher: Wild Horse Island Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Aaron Siskind 100 by Aaron Siskind ISBN: 1576871940 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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