The Afterlife of Flowers

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Summary: Revealing Hidden Beauty in Flowers
Review: For most, the term "pressed flowers" conjures the shriveled and crumbling remains of faded prom corsages. Nothing could be more strikingly different from the pressed flora you'll encounter in THE AFTERLIFE OF FLOWERS. Creator Janie Feldman Gross invites us to a world where flowers reveal their remarkable and astonishing beauty...long after bloom. She guides us through a breathtaking collection of specimens -- most grown in her own garden -- each transformed by weight and time. Bringing her artist's eye to the task, Gross combines spectacular photographic images with her own spare and carefully placed commentary. The result is a visual ballet -- flowers partnered by prose. This is a book to be enjoyed for it uniqueness, its visual aesthetic and its underlying message; if we are patient and take the time to observe the world around us, there is unexpected beauty therein.

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Summary: Revealing Hidden Beauty in Flowers
Review: For most, the term "pressed flowers" conjures the shriveled and crumbling remains of faded prom corsages. Nothing could be more strikingly different from the pressed flora you'll encounter in THE AFTERLIFE OF FLOWERS. Creator Janie Feldman Gross invites us to a world where flowers reveal their remarkable and astonishing beauty...long after bloom. She guides us through a breathtaking collection of specimens -- most grown in her own garden -- each transformed by weight and time. Bringing her artist's eye to the task, Gross combines spectacular photographic images with her own spare and carefully placed commentary. The result is a visual ballet -- flowers partnered by prose. This is a book to be enjoyed for it uniqueness, its visual aesthetic and its underlying message; if we are patient and take the time to observe the world around us, there is unexpected beauty therein.

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Summary: The Afterlife of Flowers
Review: Good reference material and some philosophy about nature. Beautiful photographs show what some commonly found flowers look like when pressed. This book is includes enlarged photos, comments, and a chart with smaller photos showing each flower's common name, width and it's location in the book. 96 pages, hardcover.

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Summary: Flower Nirvana
Review: Janie Feldman Gross takes the art of flower pressing to new dimensions. Each specimen is a work of art unto itself - the colors, textures, delicately graceful lines - coupled with Janie's poetic observations, all add up to a book that is both breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring.

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Summary: Flower Nirvana
Review: Janie Feldman Gross takes the art of flower pressing to new dimensions. Each specimen is a work of art unto itself - the colors, textures, delicately graceful lines - coupled with Janie's poetic observations, all add up to a book that is both breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring.

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Summary: This book is for anyone interested in observing the world.
Review: Take time to see flowers in a whole new way and perhaps you will enrich your life.

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Summary: This book will transform the way you see nature's delights.
Review: This "coffee table" book is ideal for anyone who enjoys flowers, gardening or seeing the aesthetic in the commonplace in our lives. "The Afterlife" is more than its visual images. To read it in full, with its wonderfully poetic prose accompanying Ms Gross' unique enlargements of pressed flowers, guides the reader to better appreciate a most unusual visual perspective of flowers. You will never look at a flower in the same way after experiencing this work. This book is a gem!

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Summary: Much More Than a Coffee Table Art Book
Review: This book is a wonderful work of art, and a bit of philosophy about nature as well. From the colors, to the prose, to even the position of the flowers on each page, the author has brilliantly created a piece of inspiration. It is hard to imagine a better art book on the subject. Buy it for someone you love, or just buy it for yourself!

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Summary: Much More Than a Coffee Table Art Book
Review: This book is a wonderful work of art, and a bit of philosophy about nature as well. From the colors, to the prose, to even the position of the flowers on each page, the author has brilliantly created a piece of inspiration. It is hard to imagine a better art book on the subject. Buy it for someone you love, or just buy it for yourself!

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Summary: Incredible Book
Review: This book is incredible! The images are truly magnificent and unique.Janie Feldman Gross takes us into a new and refreshing world of natural beauty. The reader will, undoubtedly, walk away with a new appreciation for flowers and for the wonders of nature.She captures the beauty of flowers with her amazing images. Everyone should own a copy of this book. It makes a perfect gift!