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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 760 EAN: 9780500510902 ISBN: 0500510903 Label: Thames & Hudson Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2002-10 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Studio: Thames & Hudson Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Here is an exquisitely beautiful homage to the colourful celebrity of the insect world, the butterfly. With more than 300 photographs of real butterflies, depicted in all their lightness and brilliance, and presented in a unique accordion-fold format, Butterflies in Flight is a strikingly attractive gift book that will appeal to anyone who appreciates art and nature. Hundreds of butterflies soar and drift across the page. Each panel of this traditional Japanese format stands on its own visually, yet is also designed to lead to the next panel so that the flight itself appears to glide, panel after panel, before the viewer. The accordion format, which unfolds to more than 23 metres, allows the book to be set upright and displayed as a delightful art object. Roger Camp has brilliantly used modern techniques of photography and digital imaging to create an irresistible flight of real butterflies. He was first inspired by Kanzaka Sekka's 1904 woodblock-printed book, One Thousand Kinds of Butterflies, to find a contemporary way of marrying beauty with technology, thus creating a magical presentation of these infinitely graceful creatures. Average Rating:
 Rating: - SublimeI have gifted this book repeatedly. All who have received it are inspired by its sheer beauty. Captivated by its presentation. Quite simply - a treasure to own. Rating: - Butterflies in FlightThe book "Butterflies in Flight" by Roger Camp is such a visceral experience. It is so striking, intuitive and emotional. It just grabs you and takes you on a visual and sensitive but demonstrative trip through an explosion of color that transforms it into a butterfly sanctuary. Wow! What a great book for everyone affected by Sept. 11. The book takes you to ethereal places far from hate and anxiety. Rating: - Flight and Color as RhythmThe joy that Camp brings to this accordian format tickles my senses and transports me to long-ago childhood gardens. Colors dazzle, while shapes and markings mystify me. He offers a wondrous world, indeed. I deeply appreciate the hours and patience Camp devoted to this digital project - that we might take off on our own flights of fancy. This is a marvelous gift for the holiday season. It should have a vast appeal to naturalists and photographers, both the young and the adult. Rating: - Art and the ButterflyIf you love art as much as you love butterflies, you'll find this book is an amazing combination of the two. The layout and design makes it all the more unique. If you have a butterfly lover in your family, you MUST add this to their holiday gifts. Rating: - Beauty in flighta beautiful picture essay dipicting the essence and colour of these lovely insects. a true fantasy of flight as I turned each page. the unique format helps make the book even more special. 
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