Francois Halard: Art Flowers

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.