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No flower incites passion and fervor quite like the tulip. Reverend, cultivated and coveted for more than a thousand years, the tulip is at once historically significant and disarmingly modern. THE TULIP ANTHOLOGY brings it history and enduring power into sharp focus, merrying celebrated photographer Ron van Dongen's exquisite contemporary studies of the Tulipa genus with the words and artworks it has inspired over the last millennium. From eleventh-century poetry, to the Dutch Masters of the early 1600's and twenty-first century photographs, it demonstrates our entanglement with a flower that has the capacity to enchant, inspire and even lead men to their ruin.

Published by PQ Blackwell.
Introduction by Anna Pavord.

  

Bloom a Day -- Nature's most beautiful works of art, flowers have reigned for centuries as symbols of love, gratitude, friendship, and remembrance. In Bloom a Day, celebrated photographer Ron van Dongen matches each day of the year with its corresponding blossom. A gorgeous photography book—van Dongen's work captures the rich color, exquisite detail, and sensual form of 366 different flowers.

Published by PQ Blackwell.
       
 

Perhaps the most recognized and widely-collected photographer of botanical studies working today, Ron van Dongen’s recent shift to color work was documented in our previous monograph, Effusus. We are pleased to announce his follow-up book, Aurora, presenting 33 gorgeous new plates printed – as with all of his Nazraeli Press monographs – in an oversized format bound in Japanese cloth. This new work adds to the Dutch photographer’s long and skilled study of flora in its many incarnations. Ron van Dongen’s work has been the subject of ten monographs, and is widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

“This is superb formal photography, a melding of elegant observation with attention to form and fragility, and yielding the deep beauty that arises from such single-minded observation: a precise observation of the physical world, whose precision invokes both the sensual and the spiritual.” — Katherine R. Lieber, ArtScope.net

Published by Nazraeli Press.
Introduction by Juliet Roberts.

 

  

Adding a subtle twist to his first One Picture Book, Rosa Ferreus, Ron van Dongen follows up with A. angustatum, a frame-by-frame recording of “Arisaema Angustatum, 2001” in its transition from a tender, unassuming shoot photographed in black-and-white to the mature arisaema shown right in all its glory. Van Dongen is the subject of 5 monographs by Nazraeli Press, the first 4 of which featured his black-and-white work, while the most recent, Effusus, documents the artist’s own transition to color work.
       
 

If anyone can provide us with insight into the meaning and essence of a flower, it is acclaimed botanical photographer Ron van Dongen.
Bloom presents the flower as art – water lilies, daffodils, irises, tulips, roses – all in exquisite detail and vivid colour. From the palest powder-pink of a Helleborus x hybridus to the deepest, almost-black burgundy of Papaver ‘Black Cloud’ and the lemon-lime hues of a Hippeastrum, and featuring a selection of his renowned black-and-white monographs, van Dongen captures the essence of the world of flowers
In the spirit of Georgia O’Keefe and Robert Mapplethorpe, Ron van Dongen captures the essence of a world in bloom – a world rich in colour, exquisite detail and sensual form. Bloom will be published worldwide in February 2007.

Published by PQ Blackwell.
Introduction by Peter Fetterman.

  

Ron van Dongen's eighth monograph, Effusus documents the artist’s recent shift to color photography. While the earliest work reproduced in this book dates from 1997, the vast majority of plates were made during the past two years. At the urging of gallerists and curators – bowled over by the early examples they had seen – van Dongen has recently begun to exhibit his color work to much critical acclaim. Effusus is printed in an oversized format, hardbound in Japanese cloth.

Published by Nazraeli Press.
Introduction by Ralph Lauren.
       
  Flowering Passion is Ron van Dongen's sixth monograph. This small sized (6" x 6") publication contains 80 of van Dongen's well known and lesser known floral portraits.

Published by PQ Blackwell.
  

Ops Opis, the new oversized publication by Nazraeli Press, contains 33 new works, printed in duotone on matt art paper, hand-bound in green cloth with a tipped-in cover place. Introduction by Jane Jackson.

Published by Nazraeli Press.

Published by Nazraeli Press.
Introduction by Jane Jackson.

 
       
 

Ron van Dongen's gorgeous black-and-white botanical still lifes have been the subject of three Nazraeli Press books: Alba Nero, Vulgaris, and Nudare. Our newest van Dongen title, Rosa Ferreus, documents the apparent reincarnation of one of his recent subjects. Six digital photographs, reproduced here in process color, preserve the various stages his subject -a pair of roses -experienced after full bloom. Presented in reverse order, and culminating in an original black-and-white photograph tipped into the final page of the book, these photographs bear witness to the beauty of life in all its stages, and indeed raise the question of what constitutes botanical life itself.

 

 

Nudare is our third publication on the botanical still lifes of Ron van Dongen. Like the first two books in this trilogy -Alba Nero (1999) and Vulgaris (2000) - Nudare confirms van Dongen's position as the most innovative and exciting artist working in the genre today. This large format book -14 x 17 inches -contains 32 duotone plates printed on matt art paper, hand-bound in gray cloth with a tipped-in cover plate. Ron van Dongen's work has been exhibited throughout the country, and is housed in important collections throughout the United States and Europe.

Published by Nazraeli Press.
Introduction by Carolyn Quartermaine.

 

       
 

Vulgaris, the second monograph, contains a stunning new selection of botanical still lifes. By blending aspects of classical technique with an unmistakably modern approach to the subject matter, van Dongen has cultivated a unique contribution to the longstanding tradition of still-life floral studies. This large format book measures 14 x 17 inches. It contains 32 plates printed in duotone on matt art paper, hand-bound in white cloth with a tipped-in cover plate.

Published by Nazraeli Press
Introduction by John Berendt.


Signed copies available.

  

Ron van Dongen's gorgeous, large-format photographs of floral still lifes have quietly attracted an enormous following over the past several years. Alba Nero presents thirty of van Dongen's most powerful works in an oversized - 14 x 17 inches - hardcover format. In his formally seductive series of botanical studies, van Dongen unearths floral secrets and prickly symbols of our alternately nurturing and perilous relationship with nature. Alba Nero is a convincing and welcome first monograph; this first printing is limited to 1,000 copies.

Published by Nazraeli Press.
Introduction by Steve Jenkins.


       
 

 
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