Lotus

edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi
photographs by Allan Baillie

In Lotus, Kazuaki Tanahashi and photographer Alan Baillie provide a close-up look at one of the world’s most famous and venerated flowers. Baillie's carefully assembled collection of photographs of the lotus captures the legendary flower throughout its life, from seed to brilliant flower, and finally, into dust. His photographs offer a wholly fresh view of the lotus, with surprising images of the flower at each stage of its existence.

Kazuaki Tanahashi, an expert on Asian cultures and storytelling, offers the perfect complement to the photography in this book. His introduction describes the prominence of the lotus in various cultures, and the mystical and practical meanings that the flower continues to embody. His carefully selected poems and prose extracts illuminate Baillie's extraordinary photographs.

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