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Karl Blossfeldt: Masterworks (Hardcover)
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Karl Blossfeldt: Masterworks (Hardcover)
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Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a great pioneer of botanical
photography, yet he was neither a professional photographer nor a
botanist. A professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin, he
was a sculptor and amateur photographer, and his interest in the
plant world was originally educational. Fascinated by the structure
of plants, whose apparently artistic forms were created by
biological expediency, he realized that photography could be a
useful teaching tool, allowing his students to see and compare many
natural forms. Blossfeldt worked with a homemade camera and
gathered and photographed his own plant samples, magnifying them by
up to 45 times. From around 1898 onwards, he shot some 6,000
images, which he used primarily as visual aids in his classes.
Eventually published as Art Forms in Nature (1928) and Art Forms in
Nature, Second Series (1932), his photographs had a lasting impact
on the art of his day and were enthusiastically embraced by both
the Surrealists and the New Objectivity movement. His books brought
him overnight fame and are still considered landmarks in the
history of art and photography. This volume brings together a
remarkable collection of Blossfeldt's strikingly austere yet poetic
portraits of plants, capturing their timeless beauty in intimate
detail.
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