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LUSH LIFE PAUlETTE TAvoRMiNA: SEiziNg BEAUTy Text by Silvia Malagzzi, Mark Alice Durant, Anke van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven 160 pages; 65 photos The Monacelli Press $65
The seventeenth century painters who inspire still-life photographer Paulette Tavormina selected their subjects for different reasons. Some celebrated the beauty of nature, or delighted in the luxurious objects that were suddenly available thanks to colonial wealth and global trade. Some chose fruit, wilting flowers or skulls for their symbolism, incorporating them into tabletop allegories about mortality or the fleeting pleasures of worldly goods. Tavormina is interested in all these ideas, and...