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| Calla Lillies © 1996 |
Excerpts Taken from Reviews of the Work of Amy Lamb
"Amy Lamb ...has managed to negotiate the philosophical challenge of postmodernism with what can only be described as a willful insouciance. For her, flowers are inherently symbolic objects, and so to capture their images in photographs is simply to give sensuous form to a higher reality that the whole of the visible universe must conform to. ... Her pictures are a kind of poetic speech, metaphorical, symbolic and expressive of a deeply personal response to nature that seems truth tenough in itself solely because the artist persuades us to share her delight in her subject." Glenn McNatt, The Baltimore Sun, July 14, 2005.
"[Lamb's prints] are scientifically precise and poetically imagined, a combination that places Lamb solidly in the tradition of such pioneering botanical innovators as Imogen Cunningham and Robert Mapplethorpe." Glenn McNatt, The Baltimore Sun, January 1, 2004.
"[Amy Lamb] brings a scientific knowledge that melds perfectly with her artistic vision. ... Few have the vision, patience and insight that Amy Lamb exhibits." Nate Howard, Artwork This Week, Maryland Public Television, August 2004.
"[Amy Lamb] has produced a body of photographic prints that invite comparisons to the paintings of Georgia O'Keefe. Design, color and function fuse and become a work of art." Rhonda Stansberry, Omaha World-Herald, July 2002.
"Lamb, a Washington-based scientist-turned-photographer, makes meticulously planned close-up images of flowers... Lamb brings her flowers' colors to life." Louis Jacobson, "Shuttered Out [Top Ten Photography Exhibits of 2001]," Washington City Paper, December 21, 2001.
"Here are warm, sensual, vital images small wonders writ large and
preserved by a scientist's passion, an artist's skill... She shoots lush color close-ups of her subjects-tulips, clematis, pansies,
pears and apples... Lamb's technique makes the flowers and fruit glow."
Ferdinand Protzman, The Washington Post, December 4, 1997.
"[The work of Amy Lamb] projects precision and softness... The combination of delicacy and sturdiness is reminiscient of certain handsome Japanese woodcuts." Joanna Shaw-Eagle, The Washington Times, June 16, 2001.
"Amy Lamb is a fresh new artist [with] a dynamite exhibition. Step into the gallery space and the sun comes out. You are in a fabulous garden with super-size flowers and fruits. These botanical prints are stunning." Harold Horowitz, The Washington Print Club Quarterly, Spring, 1996.
"Lamb has also invited us into a world of detail that allows us to know
these blooms as individuals... to soften and blur tones, to allow delicate
petal forms to appear strong and sculptural. Here any trace of the
artist is removed and one senses nature as the compulsive force behind such
beauty."
Nancy Ungar, Bethesda Gazette, November 18, 1998.
"Countless artists churn out hackneyed depictions of the overflowing vase
or the solitary blossom, but in this ocean of mediocrity, some, such as
photographer Amy Lamb, will create fresh, captivating images of petals and
perianths, making sense of the mania... A scientist turned photographer, she makes large, lush close-up full-color
Iris prints of absolutely pristine fruits and flowers. [Lamb uses] nature's
perfection to explore relationships between forms and colors... Whether fruit or flower, her subjects are usually at the peak of
perfection. On a symbolic level, they serve, as they have for centuries,
as allegories for the transient nature of life and beauty."
Ferdinand Protzman, The Washington Post, July 1, 1999.
"Amy Lamb['s] large, luscious photographic close-ups of flowers are
intensely dramatic and sensuous."
Nancy Ungar, Bethesda Gazette, February 3, 1999.
"First-time admirers of Lamb's lush nature portraits often wonder whether
they are photographs or watercolors. In a sense, they are both."
Susan Stephan Holloway, The Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine, Spring, 1998.
"Amy Lamb is capturing the attention of the art scene with her stunning
photographs. This talented photographer's evocative prints of fruit, flowers, and
architectural details have appeared in more than a dozen art shows this
year, capturing first place awards in show and gallery competitions both
locally and across the East Coast."
Marta Ross Dunetz, Leaves, January/February, 1997.
Glenn McNatt, "Passion Flowers," Baltimore Sun, May 9, 2004.
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