{"product_id":"primal-images-100-lumen-prints-of-amazonia-flora-9781930066229","title":"Primal Images: 100 Lumen Prints of Amazonia Flora","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its fragile beauty and dark power  the Amazon has fascinated people throughout the centuries. Enthralled by its exotic and impenetrable mystery on his first visit to the region in 1998  Jerry Burchfield sought to utilize his skills as a photographer both to celebrate the Amazons stunning beauty and also communicate his concern for its future. Primal Images is the product of his passion  composed of exquisite lumen prints created entirely without a camera or lens.  To create his lumens  Burchfield placed plant cuttings directly onto aged black-and-white photographic paper that he secured to the deck of his Amazon boat. He then let the beautifully chaotic interaction of sunlight  rain  temperature  and each plants inherent moisture and chemistry  among other factors  play out freely in prolonged exposures. The result is an astonishing array of imagesfrom the starkly representational to pure abstractions of color  shape  and formthat powerfully celebrate the rare and resplendent beauty of the worlds largest tropical rain forest.  Burchfields photographic technique draws on methods formulated during the origins of photography  beginning with the shadowgrams of nineteenth-century pioneers William Henry Fox Talbot and Anna Atkins and  more recently  twentieth-century innovators Harry Callahan and Robert Heinecken. Yet Burchfield adds a depth to the process that  as Wade Davis writes in his foreword  seeks to see beneath the surface of things to the very inner worlds that shamans desire to know.  Jerry Burchfields images are a testament to the respect in which he holds the natural world. There is a reverence in these photograms that moves them beyond the decorative  outside the scientific  and above the formal. Burchfield quietly collaborates with the form and rhythms of the natural  celebrates the authority and simplicity of his process  and respects the products and demands of time. His images reflect an artmaking sensibility more attuned to discoveries than to dictates.Tim Wride  associate curator of photography  Los Angeles County Museum of Art\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792627425333,"sku":"ByrdShop_1930066228","price":337.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781930066229.jpg?v=1784756857","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/primal-images-100-lumen-prints-of-amazonia-flora-9781930066229","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}