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Florilegia (Paperback)
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Florilegia (Paperback)
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List price R305
Loot Price R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
You Save R30 (10%)
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"The blue and white print has the night-time glow of a Joseph
Cornell ice-cube box or a Stan Brakhage film, the poppy glows
candescent but is gone. Anna Atkins' dirty fingernails are pressing
the damp skin of the poppy into cotton wadding and blotting paper
until the life has dried out of it..." Amateur botanist Anna Atkins
is now widely considered to be the first woman ever to have taken a
photograph. The introduction to one of her albums states that she
uses the photographic medium in order to "depict with the most
accuracy possible," and so assist other scientists. Yet visual
artist Annabel Dover's investigations led her to believe that
Atkins doctored and adulterated certain specimens, collaging
different sections of different plants together. In the subversive,
scrapbook narrative that follows both historic and imaginary
characters' stories are woven together: Henry James 'drowns' the
clothes of a friend post-suicide; Joe Orton's cleaning lady
considers the collaged wall in his bedsit; and Anna Atkins makes
the seaweed prints that will then appear in the first photographic
book to be published. A complex mixture of scientific observation
and tender, girlish enthusiasm Florilegia is above all else a
profound meditation on memory, loss, and our relationship to
images.
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