Tom Baril
Subtitle: Botanica
Publisher: Arena Editions
Published: April 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781892041203
Subjects: Photographs: collections; Individual Photographers And Their Work; Photography; Photo Essays; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Individual Photographer
Description: "Tom Baril's floral photographs build on a long tradition of botanical studies. Baril's images visually take us to places once visited by nineteenth-century and modernist practitioners like Adolphe Braun, Man Ray, and Irving Penn. However, Baril distinguishes his own work from that of his forebears by solarizing Polaroid film, and using unique toning techniques.".

"Botanica is Tom Baril's second monograph and follows his self-titled book from 1997. Botanica reproduces sixty of Baril's flora images in a large format design that echoes the scale of his print, and harkens back to the early illustrated books of the nineteenth century and such classic tomes as the now-legendary Urformen der Kunst (1928) by Karl Blossfeldt."--BOOK JACKET.