CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/11/2021

For savvy photography lovers, 'Joel Meyerowitz: Wild Flowers' is a Staff Pick Holiday Gift Book

"New York City" (1974) is reproduced from Wild Flowers, Damiani's critically-acclaimed, large-format, expanded edition of Joel Meyerowitz's 1983 photobook classic. "Whether it is a tattooed rose, a floral bedspread, a lovingly held bouquet or a single bloom in a desert, these photographs singly and together echo our yearning for ritual and the need to connect with beauty," Maggie Barrett writes. "While each of these images immortalizes the given moment, the subject matter reveals the ephemeral, temporary nature of existence. Like all well-tended gardens, Wild Flowers is a book you can wander through over and over again and each time discover something new."