<p>In 1981, at Bermondsey Market in London, Sean Sexton, the Irish born photographic collector, chanced upon the gelatin silver prints of Charles Jones. Dating from the turn of the century, these beguiling studio "portraits" of tulips and sunflowers, onions and turnips, plums and pears display both astonishing skill and startling originality. Their close-up viewpoint, long exposure and spare composition anticipates by decades the later achievements of modernist masters. This volume presents his work in sections devoted successively to vegetables, flowers and fruit, with captions taken from Jones's own identification, written by hand on the back of the prints. Robert Flynn Johnson places the work in the tradition of still life and pieces together the fragmentary evidence about the life of this mysterious figure, who trained as a gardener and worked on a number of private estates, but who left no notes or diaries to explain why he photographed the plants he saw every day. Writer and restauranteur Alice Waters describes the simply beauty of the photographs in the preface. The perfect antidote to appetites jaded by processed foods and late 20th-century life, the legacy of Charles Jones is a reminder of the bountiful riches of nature.</p>

The plant kingdoms of Charles Jones

Arts & Photography

SEXTON, Sean & JOHNSON, Robert Flynn

Photography & Video

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

<p>First U.S. Edition, 1998, first printing, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1,  an unread, unmarked, hardly opened, unworn (except for a small scratch in the upper right corner of the first page, where it appears a sticker was peeled off), oversized, hardcover, with an unclipped (but no price anywhere) dust jacket that has very slight rubbing at the top spine end, also two small closed tears, one about 1/4" at the bottom front outer corner and one about 1/2" on the bottom front edge about 1" from the outer corner, from Smithmark.  By Sean Sexton and Robert Flynn Johnson, with a preface by Chez Panisse's Alice Waters.  Bibliography.  128 pages.</p>

Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones

Smithmark

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The plant kingdoms of Charles Jones

Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones