Bird Hand Book
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICTOR SCHRAGER
TEXT BY A.S. BYATT
"With such an optimal collaboration of the best photographer and the best author - all surrounding, to boot, an idea of wonderful originality in depicting the human side and meaning of natural history - the old cliché equation has been fractured. These birds-in-hand are worth all the others in all the bushes combined."
Stephen Jay Gould
selected for "50 Covers/50 Books" AIGA, New York
selected for Design + Art Direction Annual, London
" Victor Schrager's Bird Hand Book (Graphis $60) is a collection of birds held by human hands against a background of plain, light-colored fabric. The results are startling, amusing, and enchanting. These are birds at their most vulnerable - restrained and stripped of all natural surroundings. But the setting only enhances the uniqueness of each species and the sense of independence and vitality that we associate with birds. A.S. Byatt's text complements and interprets this theme, and the book's beautiful design weaves everything together."David Alan Sibley - House and Garden
Composition as Explanation
CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION
PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED BY: EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY
The Melon
by Amy Goldman
“The Melon” is large, lavishly illustrated as well as informative, well-written, concise, and clear- in fact, a first-rate reference book. Tucked between photographer Victor Schrager’ s gorgeous, seductive portraits of each melon are carefully researched variety descriptions and histories, advice on growing, primers on saving seeds and hand pollination, and a complete list of seed sources. —The American Gardener
The Heirloom Tomato
by Amy Goldman
“The interaction of Amy’s prose and Victor Schrager’s delicious pictures has produced a volume that delights the eye, whets the palate, dazzles the mind with gems of scholarship, and offers practical advice to backyard gardeners and chefs. Enjoy.”
—Jules Janick, James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture, Purdue University
The Compleat Squash
by Amy Goldman
Sheer beauty and inspiration.”
—The Washington Post
One hundred-fifty heirloom pumpkins, squash, and gourds deliver unsurpassed beauty, exceptional flavor, and rare forms.
