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Seeing Gardens (New Millennium) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sam Abell
Publisher: National Geographic
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 204619
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 10.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0792279565
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.0222
EAN: 9780792279563
ASIN: 0792279565
Publication Date: November 1, 2000
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In his 1990 book Stay This Moment, National Geographic photographer Sam Abell wrote, "There are few fresh photographs of gardens because photographing beautiful things is difficult." Now, almost as if in answer to himself, Abell has produced Seeing Gardens, with 150 quiet, intensely gorgeous full-frame images from around the globe that stand as a testament to his ability to do exactly that: photograph beautiful things in a fresh and inventive way. In his simple, elegant text, Abell provides insights into how he came to take many of his better known images, such as National Hotel, Moscow, Russia, which features a handful of pears resting on a windowsill with the Kremlin in the background. Perhaps never before have Abell's sumptuous photographs been placed in a more apt context--that of the garden, both in a literal sense, like his stunning images of temple gardens in Japan, and in a figurative sense, including his shot of a blue neon sign that simply says "FLOWERS." --Walt Opie
Product Description
In stunning images and soulful words, Seeing Gardens is award-winning photographic artist Sam Abell's intensely personal and celebratory display of the beautiful, exotic, and often startlingly unconventional gardens he has discovered and exquisitely captured over the course of three decades of international travel. Featuring more than 125 high-resolution, full-color photographs, the book is divided into three sections: "The Garden", "Wild Gardens", and "Seeing Gardens", which chronicle Abell's discoveries of English historic gardens, Tolstoy's garden, Venetian gardens, Moroccan oasis gardens, the minimalist Zen gardens of Kyoto, and more, and spotlight "garden-like" beauty in such untamed regions as the Australian Outback, the Alaskan Arctic, and the Appalachian Trail. An epilogue illuminates the imaginative ways people incorporate the universal poetry of gardens into their lives, whether via flower arrangements, garden-inspired fabrics -- or through lovingly crafted photographs. With compelling personal stories that give meaning and context to each photograph, Abell's artistry opens our eyes to the dazzling varieties and subtle beauties of gardens, both expected and unexpected.
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Exotic, beautiful, dazzling photographs of gardens January 17, 2001
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
For more than thirty years Sam Abell traveled the world on assignment for National Geographic. In Seeing Gardens he has assembled 125 of his most exotic, beautiful, dazzling photographs of gardens ranging from the symmetrical, formal English garden to the haphazard, naturally harmonious rock pools, to a field of spring blossoms, to the floral design of a head scarf. Highly recommended for students of photography, gardening enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates viewing the world through an artist's lens, Seeing Gardens is a vivid, personally intense, inspiring, visual celebration of the variety, spectrum and beauty of gardens.
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