The Afterlife of Flowers

by Janie Feldman Gross

Book Overview

A gift book exposing the fragile beauty of pressed, dried flowers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762405708
• ISBN13: 9780762405701
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.3" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Revealing Hidden Beauty in Flowers

For most, the term "pressed flowers" conjures the shriveled and crumbling remains of faded prom corsages. Nothing could be more strikingly different from the pressed flora you'll encounter in THE AFTERLIFE OF FLOWERS. Creator Janie Feldman Gross invites us to a world where flowers reveal their remarkable and astonishing beauty...long after bloom. She guides us through a breathtaking collection of specimens -- most grown in her own garden -- each transformed by weight and time. Bringing her artist's eye to the task, Gross combines spectacular photographic images with her own spare and carefully placed commentary. The result is a visual ballet -- flowers partnered by prose. This is a book to be enjoyed for it uniqueness, its visual aesthetic and its underlying message; if we are patient and take the time to observe the world around us, there is unexpected beauty therein.

Much More Than a Coffee Table Art Book

This book is a wonderful work of art, and a bit of philosophy about nature as well. From the colors, to the prose, to even the position of the flowers on each page, the author has brilliantly created a piece of inspiration. It is hard to imagine a better art book on the subject. Buy it for someone you love, or just buy it for yourself!

The IDEAL GIFT

This transcends the definition of a book. It is a visual masterpiece by the author/designer and you should give it as a gift to yourself or someone special---truly the IDEAL GIFT---with an affordable price for such a high quality ART book. You will see flowers like never before in thisevocative presentation of nature as art. The Afterlife of Flowers is not only for flower lovers. It will open your mind to colors, textures, journal writing, the art of seeing AND the essence of life. A MUST buy!

Incredible Book

This book is incredible! The images are truly magnificent and unique.Janie Feldman Gross takes us into a new and refreshing world of natural beauty. The reader will, undoubtedly, walk away with a new appreciation for flowers and for the wonders of nature.She captures the beauty of flowers with her amazing images. Everyone should own a copy of this book. It makes a perfect gift!

This book will transform the way you see nature's delights.

This "coffee table" book is ideal for anyone who enjoys flowers, gardening or seeing the aesthetic in the commonplace in our lives. "The Afterlife" is more than its visual images. To read it in full, with its wonderfully poetic prose accompanying Ms Gross' unique enlargements of pressed flowers, guides the reader to better appreciate a most unusual visual perspective of flowers. You will never look at a flower in the same way after experiencing this work. This book is a gem!