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Afterlife Of Flowers

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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!

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 isn't a how-to book, but the gorgeous photos do serve as a valuable guide to what some commonly found flowers will look like when pressed. The book is comprised of enlarged photos and comments, ending with an id chart of smaller photos along with each flower's common name, actual width, and the page it was featured on.

If you like the look of pressed flowers, you might want to check out Laura Martin's Art and Craft of Pounding Flowers. Pounding an object's pigment onto fabric and paper creates beautiful and uniquely pressed flower like images. Very nice.

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.

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!

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!

Janie Feldman Gross takes the art of flower pressing to new dimensions. Each specimen is a work of art unto itself - the colors, textures, delicately graceful lines - coupled with Janie's poetic observations, all add up to a book that is both breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring.

Good reference material and some philosophy about nature. Beautiful photographs show what some commonly found flowers look like when pressed. This book is includes enlarged photos, comments, and a chart with smaller photos showing each flower's common name, width and it's location in the book. 96 pages, hardcover.

This book provides a terrific way for everyone to appreciate the beauty of flowers! Readers like myself, who have little or no background in gardening etc, will delight in the unique images and the accompanying thoughts. It's the perfect way to share your love of flowers with a friend.

On Martha Stewart's show Feldman Gross talks about how she shows you how she to disect flower in some Japanese way to be able to press them better. She promises many tips on how to press flowers. In fact there isn't tip one in this book. So if you want an expensive book to lie on your coffe table, you might want this. But that's all it is good for. NO TIPS on pressing flowers in this rip off.
Book Trader Cafe that I bought it through is a good place. The book it's self was in great shape. It's Gross that mislead what it was about.