In “What Remains: Les Schmidt at Guy Lyman Fine Art,” I take a look at the photographer’s flower-portraits while thinking about flowers in art, loss, memory, Emily Brontë, 17th-century vanitas symbols, Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Alexander McQueen, and the Day of the Dead.
What Remains: Les Schmidt at Guy Lyman Fine Art
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