Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic Invention by Abelardo Morell

Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic Invention by Abelardo Morell

Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa, a photograph of flowers on her birthday. “Flowers are part of a long tradition of still life in art,” writes Morell. “Precisely because flowers are such a conventional subject, I felt a strong desire to describe them in new, inventive ways.” With nods to the work of Jan Brueghel, Édouard Manet, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, and others, Morell does just that; the images are as innovative as they are arresting.

"A plain glass vase, a few simple flowersThe photographer Abelardo Morell offers a paean to his feelings — and evokes a cavalcade of art heroes." -- The New York Times
"Morell turns a common, fleeting romantic gesture—giving flowers to a loved one—into something lasting and permanent: a series of 76 hypnotic photographs, made using a variety of techniques, that commemorate his love for his wife." -- Photo District News
"Beginning the series is an intricate arrangement achieved through digitally merging multiple exposures of twenty separate bouquets, resulting in a dynamic and vibrant burst of colours erupting out of the vase like fireworks; later in the book, Morell presents Photoshop’s interpretation and recreation of Severin Roesen Flower Still Life with Bird’s Nest (1853)." -- AnOther
“the most exhilarating photo book of the year” “The book is a tour de force, a sustained burst of emotion, and a transferable unit of joy.” -- The New York Times Book Review Holiday Issue

Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948 and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. His work has been collected and shown in many galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMoMA, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and more than seventy other museums in the United States and abroad. Morell is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York. His publications include A Book of Books, Camera Obscura, and The Universe Next Door.   Lawrence Weschler is the award-winning author of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (about Robert Irwin), True to Life (about David Hockney), Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, and Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez, among many others. He lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781419732331
ISBN 10	1419732331
Title	Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic Invention
Author	Abelardo Morell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Abrams
Year published	2018-10-16
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.