For almost twenty years Lynn Geesaman has photographed fertile orchards and fields, elaborately cultivated gardens, and manicured walkways of parks, estates, and chateaux in Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, and across the United States. In this first publication of her luminous color work, Geesaman shows us places in which artifice and human industry have imposed their will upon the natural landscape.
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*Starred Review* Geesaman's Poetics of Place (1999) contains some of the finest formal-garden photography ever published--in monochrome, no less, which she developed into vibrant, velvety visions of the ideal garden. She carries over the elements of composition and development that made those images so astonishing into Gardenscapes, but now she is shooting in color, and that has, she says, brought a crucial element of discovery into her work. She experiments with degrees of coloration in the darkroom, striving to find hues obscured by the predominant color (usually, in these pictures, green) that will help the print achieve "a painterly quality because all the color relationships are right." Mission accomplished in these ravishing pictures, which by turns call to mind Friedrich, Monet, Sargent, and, many times, Redon and Pollock. That is, their artistic manners range from mysticism to abstract expressionism. If in general they recall gauzy early-twentieth-century pictorialist photography, they lack its sentimentality by eschewing human figures, other than sculpture, and appealing thereby to the taste for austerity. But their austerity is, because of all the flowers, leaves, bark, and branches, the sensuous austerity that is one kind of timeless beauty. Ray Olson
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"Ms. Geesaman's treatments of highly cultivated landscapes, with their cloudless, timeless skies and languorous beauty, bring Atget immediately to mind."--Roberta Smith, The New York Times Magazine
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"Her seventy-one color photographs recall the paintings of the Impressionists--beautifully composed geometries that are perfectly balanced, their color and the light shimmer in a magical way... Verlyn Klinkenborg contributes two edifying essays and an interview with the artist. This is a beautiful book--laden with presence--and deserves a place in your library." --THE Magazine
"These are not the colors of Monet or Sisley, nor are they Kodak's or Fuji's; they are Geesaman's--experimented with, refined and won, print by print in her darkroom, along with the thoughtful diffusion of reality in her negatives." -- Verlyn Klinenborg --Wellesley
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"Her seventy-one color photographs recall the paintings of the Impressionists--beautifully composed geometries that are perfectly balanced, their color and the light shimmer in a magical way... Verlyn Klinkenborg contributes two edifying essays and an interview with the artist. This is a beautiful book--laden with presence--and deserves a place in your library." --THE Magazine
"These are not the colors of Monet or Sisley, nor are they Kodak's or Fuji's; they are Geesaman's--experimented with, refined and won, print by print in her darkroom, along with the thoughtful diffusion of reality in her negatives." -- Verlyn Klinenborg --Wellesley
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A breathtaking visual delight,
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This review is from: Lynn Geesaman: Gardenscapes (Hardcover)
Gardenscapes presents seventy-one impressively memorable photographs by Lynn Gessaman showcasing natural scenes, gardens, and rural landscapes. These stunning visual images are not simply colored versions of black-and-white monographs, but vibrant expressions of world and place that seems to blur the line between reality and the forests of the imagination. A breathtaking visual delight, with informatively enhanced essays complementing the sheer, stunning beauty of these timeless images, Gardenscapes is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library Photography collections.
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Breathtaking beauty,
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The photos in this book are the most beautiful I have ever seen. The gardens and forests portrayed are magical, filled with beauty, and evocative in the extreme. If you love looking at photos of enchanted looking forests, like something out of a fairy tale, this book is for you. The gardens pictures are equally lovely. Every page in this book contains an absolutely stunning photo. I can't speak highly enough about this book; if you love anything nature related, you will love this book.
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The photography in this book and the way it was taken really makes you feel like you are in another world. Absolutely stunning pictures.
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