Contextual notes: The complexity of flowers and their intrinsic beauty ensures that they are a continual fascination for photographers - indeed many photographers that have established reputations handling other subjects have also explored their sinuous shapes. Tom Baril has done brooding studies of the architecture of New York, Ernst Haas was one of the first to appreciate the importance of color photography and is well known for his motion studies, Joyce Tenneson for her portraits and Robert Mapplethorpe for his studies of the human body in all its diversity. |