About the Photographer ~ Ann Parker

Ann Parker is an award-winning artist and photographer whose work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad.

For the past decade, she has experimented with a new imagery, Botanical Metamorphics: Without film or camera, she projects light through flowers, fruits, and vegetables onto color-sensitive paper, producing photograms that reveal the essence of plant life with extraordinary clarity.

Parker’s work is found in public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Images of “Red Crown Imperial” and “Jack-in-the-pulpit” on the cover of The Adventurous Gardener: Where to Buy the Best Plants in New York and New Jersey are printed by permission of the artist.

About the Illustrator ~ Jacques Hnizdovsky (1915 - 1985)

Jacques Hnizdovsky was a Ukranian American artist, whose distinctive woodcuts drew influence from the work of Albrecht Durer, Japanese woodblock prints, and the folk art of his native Ukraine.

Hnizdovsky’s graphic work was exhibited widely during his lifetime and today is represented in books, museums, and on the walls of many collectors.

Images of Hnizdovsky’s woodcuts appearing in The Adventurous Gardener: Where to Buy the Best Plants in New York and New Jersey are printed by permission of Stephanie Hnizdovsky and David R. Godine Publishers. His family maintains a website of his work at www.hnizdovsky.com.

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