ORIGINAL 2005 JONATHAN M SINGER (1940-2019) 'ORANGE POPPIES BOUQUET' PHOTOGRAPH

This is a wonderful original.  I bought this photograph without knowing who the artist was.  I just thought it was truly amazing.  The incredible contrast of the flower versus the black background and white margins is just incredible.  When I figured out who the artist was, I realized that this work is what he is famous for and the works are really incredible and in museums and institutions throughout the world. For those not familair with the artist, I have included his biography below.  This is a stunning photograph of a bouquet of Orange or California poppies against a black backing.  Just stunning in its contrast and clarity. The image measures 7 x 5 inches on sheet measuring 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches.  Initialed and dated in black ink below the image and next to the artist's blindstamp lower right.  Stunning example of the artist's work.  I know he does some of the photographs in much bigger size but I love how this one is easily framed and would display beautifully on any wall.  Really a stunning work. FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

For those not familiar with the photographer his biography from a gallery that sells the artist's work reads: "From the Vanity Fair Article by Howard Kaplan, March 25, 2008: Armed with a digital camera, a decades-old printer, and a jeweler’s tool nicknamed the Gadget, New Jersey podiatrist Jonathan Singer takes pictures of endangered flowers. His extraordinary photographs have impressed Eileen Ford, the Smithsonian, and a Japanese collector with very deep pockets. As Singer’s masterpiece, Botanica Magnifica, prepares for a Washington, D.C., unveiling, the author traces the journey of this unlikely “Master of Light.” As a young man, Singer, a native New Yorker, was the protégé of Ilya Bolotowsky, the painter. Singer dreamed of becoming an artist, but his Jewish mother got her wish and Singer became a doctor instead—a podiatrist with a practice in Bayonne, New Jersey. He lived in Bayonne with his wife and daughter in a two-story house with light-blue siding. He never stopped being a podiatrist—he still had his practice even now—but all this time he’d kept a hand in the higher realm of art photography. His two favorite subjects were flowers and graffiti. He’d spent many hours with graffiti writers (some of them famous, such as Lady Pink). In Fort Apache, the Bronx, on Sundays, the cops would marvel at this one tall white man blithely wandering the streets with his camera, a Hasselblad with a price tag of $40,000. This is the push that eventually led Singer to the doors of the Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C., and its then chair of botany, Dr. John Kress. When not out collecting plants in the jungle, Dr. Kress, a trim, bearded man, spends his days in a window office at the National Museum of Natural History. His office is up in the botany wing, home to 17 full-time scientists and one large herbarium spanning two floors. The botany wing is closed to the public. Most people don’t even know it exists. This lack of identity is an affront to Kress, who sometime back, while still chair of botany, hatched a plan to open a room—the Center for Botanical Art and Illustration—that would give his department a public face. He hadn’t yet moved in earnest on his vision, but it seemed to him that such a room could use a bold new botanical artwork, something commissioned just for the occasion. Singer was ignorant of any such plan when Kress agreed to meet with him. At Kress’s suggestion, they met “off campus,” at the Addison/Ripley Gallery, in Georgetown. The neutral setting was by design. Pushy artists are always angling to foist their stuff on Kress and his colleagues. Often a piece arrives unsolicited. Once the thing is in the museum, even if it happens to be jammed in some closet, the artist proudly proclaims to the world that his piece titled Whatever has been “accepted” by the Smithsonian. If that was what this guy Singer was like, Kress didn’t want him near the museum. Kress’s first glimpse of Singer’s photography was not, apparently, the end-all experience it seems to have been for Marc Hachadourian. Singer showed up at the Addison/Ripley with a stack of some two dozen very large prints that were part of a work he called Botanica Magnifica. Recalling that day, Kress now says—picking his words with care for the record—“About half the images were really impressive. The other half were not as impressive.”"   

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