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New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1998. Cloth, 128 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Charles Jones is likely to remain forever a mysterious figure. We shall probably never know exactly how and why he came so obsessively and so brilliantly to photograph the plants he encountered in everyday life at the turn of the century. Yet Charles Jones did not photograph his vegetables, fruits, and flowers within nature. On the contrary, he isolated his works against neutral backgrounds - beguiling studio 'portraits' of beans and onions, squashes and turnips, tulips and sunflowers, plums and pears. His techniques - close-up viewpoint, long exposure, and spare composition - anticipate by decades the later achievements of modernist masters, for here was an 'outsider' genius, who was saved from obscurity only by the…
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Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones Hardcover - 1998
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- Title Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones
- Author Sexton Sean and Robert Flynn Johnson
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- Pages 128
- Language ENG
- Publisher Smithmark, New York
- Date 1998
- ISBN 9780765108364
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Smithmark, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Full page vegetable and flower photographs in black & white from the 19th century master. Unopened pages. Small bump at upper corner the only detraction from a Fine copy. Crisp jacket with short tear at lower back. Oversize. .
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New York: Smithmark, 1998. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 128 pages. Features a preface by noted chef Alice Waters an introduction by Robert Flynn Johnson. A beautifully printed book of Jones photographs of plants and vegetables that are more reminscent of portraits then of typical nature images. A clean near fine copy in cloth boards in a near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed.
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New York: Smithmark, 1998. hardcover. near fine/very good(-). Charles Jones.. Preface by Alice Waters. Beautifully illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Charles Jones. 128 pages, square 4to, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper edgeworn, with some tearing along edges. New York: Smithmark, (1998). Near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>
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Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones The Outsider Genius Saved from Obscurity by Chance Discovery
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Smithmark Publishers, New York, 1998. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 128 pages. Hardcover. Text in English. First edition. Dusjacket is crisp and bright, now protected with a Mylar cover. Lushly reproduced botanical photographs in sensuous duotone by the little known 19th century English photographer. Hardcover binding with gray colored cloth covered boards and gold stamping to the spine..
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