Dick Arentz spent 35 years exposing film through the bellows of large-format view cameras. He printed his images using the 19th century process of platinum and palladium printing, for which he is the recognized master. His books include ‘Platinum & Palladium Printing,’ as well as Nazraeli publications ‘The Grand Tour’ and ‘British Isles.’ Now with ‘Italy Through Another Lens,’ Arentz has moved to the 21st century, using the latest technology. His impressions of Italy are indeed ‘Italy Through Another Lens.’ Arentz presents a series of landscapes not generally seen by Italians or visitors, and which, framed by his unerring eye, radiate with the rich, haunting beauty of Italy from the Italo-Albanese hill towns in Sicily and Calabria to the little-known canals of Milano. The work of Dick Arentz has been widely exhibited internationally, and is included in such important museum collections as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. ‘Italy Through Another Lens’ is limited to 1,000 casebound copies, and opens with an introduction by Lucia Gillard.
Flowers (CubeBook)
From Zen gardens on the grounds of Buddhist temples to the herb gardens of the Middle Ages and the quintessential flower gardens of English country houses, we have had an ongoing mission to tame and refashion nature. This new addition to White Star’s bestselling CubeBook series celebrates the diversity of man-made landscapes, depicting through more than 500 photographs, the huge variety of gardens around the globe. Flowers and Gardens CubeBook takes readers on a delightful tour of the finest gardens on five continents, including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Huntington gardens in California, Filoli in Florida, the Boboli Garden in Florence, the Royal Botanical Garden in Kew, Vaux le Vicomte and Versailles outside Paris, and the Keukenhof flower show park in The Netherlands. Spectacular panoramic photographs capture the stunning landscapes and meticulously tended flower beds of these gardens, while close-ups demonstrate the jewel-toned glory of every kind of flower under the sun. The gardens in these pages will inspire gardeners, artists, poets, and anyone who appreciates nature’s bounty.
