This new, expanded edition of Joel Meyerowitz's acclaimed photobook Wild Flowers, now in a larger format, features new and previously unpublished images.
 
 
 
For nearly forty years, Meyerowitz has tended his visual garden in the streets, parks and cities he has visited or lived in. He ventures out with open, passionate eyes, carrying a machine perfectly suited to taking it all in. As quick as the flick of an eyelash, the Leica effortlessly interrupts time, stopping and holding it forever. These walks shaped a new territory that he began to regard as a garden reflecting the variety of his observations. One day, while editing, he came upon a small group of flower photographs he had unknowingly gathered. He began to believe that this innocent premise could unite many of his other photographic concerns under the nominal theme of “flowers”. Given the surprises of city life, he saw them as flowers that had grown a little wild, and so Wild Flowers was born.