Customer Reviews

Art Forms in the Plant World: 120 Full-Page Photographs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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Karl Blossfeldt's imagery conjures up strange imaginary worlds. An absolute must have for artists searching out unusual organic forms as inspiration. Straight forward full frame B and W shots make photo copying or scanning a breeze. Gaudi, and Ernst along with the Brothers Quay come to mind.

the reproductions are low contrast and not very nice -- i'd rather have photocopies! will look for a better copy...

I was expecting crispy photos of professional quality with good levels of contrast to define edges, variation, etc. of the forms photographed. Instead most of the photos were somewhat blurry and of low-contrast, mostly grays, leaving depth to be inferred and not readable. I admit that I'm disappointed.

Great, portable reference and inspirational book for the creative photographer or artist. Not as extensive as the original, now out of print, hardcover book by Blossfeldt, but a good alternative.

The quality of the printed images is not very good. I was hoping for glossy paper and crisp images. The paper used was not high quality, and the images are somewhat blurry. However, for the price, I think it is fine, but I forsee using it more as a reference to find better reproductions of images I like rather than as a book that I would enjoy perusing regularly.