Product Description

The Dutch had Tulip Mania in the 17th century. Victorian England had its own equivalent with 'orchidelirium', an obsessive passion for orchids that has carried into the present day. Orchids remain among the most exquisite, expensive, hotly debated and passionately collected of all flowers, as Susan Orlean chronicled brilliantly in her book The Orchid Thief, reinterpreted as the hit film Adaptation. A gift book for both serious collectors and neophytes, flower lovers and photography fanatics, Orchidelirium presents Harold Feinstein's breathtaking pictures of orchids - dozens of different varieties and shades of them. In the tradition of the critically acclaimed and highly successful gift book One Hundred Flowers, this new volume offers images of staggering detail and subtlety. Nobody has been able to match Feinstein's mastery of flower photography, and nowhere is his remarkable talent as evident as it is in these pictures of orchids, nature's most delicate and variegated creations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #719590 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
Feinstein's distinguished career in photography began in 1950, when his work was purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and exhibited frequently. Dr Robert Hesse has been a Certified Orchid Judge and is a director of the Massachusetts Orchid Society.