Research Catalog

Title

Flowers for Lisa : a delirium of photographic invention / Abelardo Morell ; conversation with Lawrence Weschler ; afterword by Lisa McElaney.

Author

Morell, Abelardo

Publication

New York : Abrams, 2018.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Weschler, Lawrence
• McElaney, Lisa

Description

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm

Summary

Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for 'Flowers for Lisa' emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa, a photograph of flowers on her birthday. "Flowers are part of a long tradition of still life in art," writes Morell. "Precisely because flowers are such a conventional subject, I felt a strong desire to describe them in new, inventive ways." With nods to the work of Jan Brueghel, Edouard Manet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rene Magritte, and others, Morell does just that; the images are as innovative as they are arresting.

Subjects

• Interviews
• Photography of plants
• Photography, Artistic
• Photobooks
• Morell, Abelardo > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Photobooks.

Call Number

JQG 18-1205

ISBN

• 9781419732331
• 1419732331
• 9781419735868
• 1419735861

LCCN

2017956792

OCLC

1024101960

Author

Morell, Abelardo, photographer, artist, interviewee.

Title

Flowers for Lisa : a delirium of photographic invention / Abelardo Morell ; conversation with Lawrence Weschler ; afterword by Lisa McElaney.

Publisher

New York : Abrams, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Weschler, Lawrence, interviewer.

McElaney, Lisa, contributor.

Research Call Number

JQG 18-1205