Seeing Gardens

2008-10 • 208 sayfa • EN

Yazan Sam Abell

For 30 years Sam Abell has traveled the world paying attention to the beauty of gardens. In words and photographs, this book chronicles his travels and the discoveries he makes seeing gardens in all settings, expected and unexpected; it all adds up to an original view of life, published here for the first time, where all the earth is seen as a garden. As befits a book that melds two visual arts, ¿Seeing Gardens¿ lets its 150 pictures speak for themselves with a spare text that offers context rather than commentary. The book is at once thoughtful and elegant, and the anecdotes, recollections and aesthetic philosophy amount to a brief but telling memoir of Abell¿s three decades of interpreting gardens.