Plants

Plants is Polly Brown's photographic study of houseplants, isolating individual specimens against plain backgrounds to look closely at their color and form.

Published by Twelve Books, the volume works like a modest field guide, moving from plant to plant in a steady, repeated format rather than building a narrative. The plain presentation puts the emphasis entirely on each plant's structure and the small variations between one leaf and the next.

Brown's photography often turns to domestic and everyday subjects treated with a quiet, systematic eye, and Plants fits that pattern of looking hard at something ordinary until it stops feeling that way.