Ocean Flowers
Impressions from Nature
Carol Armstrong, Catherine de Zegher

Hardbound , 8.5" x 10.25", 272 pages
200 color illustrations
2004, Princeton University Press
Edited by Carol Armstrong and Catherine De Zegher

This magnificent book is based on the simple joys of curiosity and the natural world. Carol Armstrong, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton, and Catherine de Zegher, Director of The Drawing Center in New York, have put their brilliant minds together to bring us a collection of book plates, cyanotypes, and color illustrations, all from the mid-nineteenth century, that revolve around the intensive experimentation accompanying the advent of photography. Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and her Victorian contemporaries are featured prominently, and the sheer number of plant specimens and illustrations is amazing.

"Ocean Flowers" focuses on natural-history imagery in the mid-19th century, placing particular emphasis on the botanical drawings and photograms by the artist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and her Victorian contemporaries.- publisher

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