My BEE Review on WINK

Posted byGareth BranwynPosted inAnnouncements, Book Reviews

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My latest WINK review, of Rose-Lynn Fisher’s amazing BEE, is live.

Work on BEE, the handsome and inspiring book by artist and photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher, began the first time she peered at the magnified image of a bee’s eye and realized that its 6,900 hexagonal lenses looked shockingly similar to a honeycomb. Was this a coincidence or a clue, she wondered? Was there a deeper connection between the structure of a bee’s vision and the structures that it builds (“corresponding frequencies expressed in corresponding forms,” as Fisher puts it)? This set her off on a quest which resulted in this award-winning book (2010 International Photography Awards).

Read the full review.

Published by Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and "lazy person's memoir," called Borg Like Me.

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