Janet Malcolm is the author of many books including The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey, and Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, for which she received the 2008 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She writes for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Her burdock leaf photographs can be seen at the Lori Bookstein Fine Art Gallery in New York City.
"Seldom has an American artist—in any genre—offered such clear-eyed
images of the natural world. Skirting all the usual landscape
conventions—sublime, elegiac, sentimental—Janet Malcolm has turned
her wintry gaze on these most ordinary leaves, and the result is
wondrous to behold. Here is the heartbreaking particularity of
nature, and the ravages of time made flesh. At once clinical and
poignant, these photographs changed the way I look at the green
world around me."—Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A
Plant's-Eye View of the World
*Michael Pollan*
"Starkly photographed against a white background, the leaves
suggest Richard Avedon's austere portraits."—Rebecca Robertson,
ARTnews
*ARTnews*
"Elegant. . . . A marvel."—Tayt Harlin, New York Magazine[Critic's
Pick]
*New York Magazine*
"Weird and wonderful."—Adam Begley, New York Observer
*New York Observer*
"Breathtakingly seductive, Burdock is almost as much a journey of
the soul as it is of the eyes. Though [Malcolm] leaves us with
only a handful of images, they linger in the mind for hours after
you've closed the book. Lovely."—Art Times
*Art Times*
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