Flower

After Bird, Andrew moved toward investigating the botanical world. This came out of a preservationist impulse, in addition to furthering the technical concerns that emerged from Bird. Photographs act as a kind of record-keeping in a world that is not only constantly passing away and being reborn, but also now being rapidly depleted of its natural resources. The current levels of extinction apply as much to flora as they do to fauna, so the move toward plants was a natural one.

What we see in flowers as astonishingly beautiful aesthetic qualities are, for them, survival mechanisms. Every flower is a dependent half of a pair in their ecosystem; structurally, they evoke their pollinator counterparts. Very early on in the making of this project, the studio had the opportunity to photograph the extremely rare Darwin’s star orchid, which was instrumental in Darwin’s formulation of the theory of evolution. He postulated that because of the 11-inch spur extending from its blossom, there had to be an insect with an appendage long enough to pollinate it. No one believed him, but 40 years later, entomologists discovered a moth with a furled tongue that was four times longer than its body.

The photographs of flowers taken by Andrew Zuckerman are pure. His pictures are elegant. The images, one after another, flow like a dream of dance.
— DAVID LYNCH, Artist

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Flower Book