Nuridsany, Claude and Marie Perennou. 1997. The Metamorphosis of Flowers. ISBN: 0-8109-3625-9. Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Singer, Jonathan. 2009. Botanica Magnifica: Portraits of the World’s Most Extraordinary Flowers & Plants. ISBN: 9780789210333. Abbeville Press.
In the Introduction of Botanica Magnifica: Portraits of the World’s Most Extraordinary Flowers & Plants, Marc Hachadourian, the Curator of Glasshouse Collections at New York Botanical Garden, discusses the centuries old association between science and art, citing specifically the relationship between a botanist and an artist. He explains that photographer Jonathan M. Singer, inspired by early botanical artists such as Walter Hood Fitch, Basil Besler, and Franz Bauer, as well as contemporary botanical artists Pandora Sellars, Anne Farrer, and Celia Rosser, set out to develop a digital photography technique that would capture a viewer’s emotions through lighting and detail and surpass “the capability of brush and paint.” Read full review
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