Seashells

by Josie Iselin, Sandy Carlson

Overview

Artist Josie Iselin celebrates the diversity and beauty of nature with her exquisite portraits of seashells. Like her extremely popular Beach Stones and Leaves & Pods, Seashells is not a field guide but an artful and informative portrayal of a beloved part of our natural world. The book balances the exotic with the familiar, from tropical corals and rare fossils to everyday clamshells and barnacles. In her introduction and captions, marine geologist and paleontologist Sandy Carlson introduces the reader to seashells in all their variety, explaining why they look as they do. Both an art book and a contemplation of nature, Seashells combines aesthetic delight in natural things with scientific fact and philosophical wonder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810993273
Publisher:	ABRAMS
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	678,121
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Josie Iselin is a photographer and installation artist, and the author of Abrams' popular Beach Stones and Leaves & Pods. She lives in San Francisco.

Sandy Carlson is a paleontologist specializing in marine invertebrates at the University of California, Davis. She lives in San Francisco.