Francois Halard: Art & Flowers - Multi - Black

The master photographer's compelling images of his two most intimate passions: art and flowers. Long revered for his personal photography of the world's most celebrated buildings and interiors; Halard strikes a new path with two new bodies of work. In turns traditional and abstract; the Flowers series is a captivating exploration of nature's beauty. In the second series; Art; Halard has enlarged a select number of his Polaroids; which he then worked on top with paint; wax; and other materials to give the final results a strong; layered sense of history and memory. Halard's transformation of the ephemeral into the permanent; in the case of his flowers; and the permanent into the ephemeral; in the case of his Classical-inspired artworks--give power and beauty to these compelling images.