The cyanotype print is a visually arresting printing method whose fame dates back to the nineteenth-century botanist Anna Atkins. Zeva Oelbaum here revisits the beauty of the natural world and pays homage to this botanist and little used, compelling process in Blue Prints: The Natural World in Cyanotype Photographs. This book features captivating flower and animal images produced with a process that dates back to the birth of photography. Charmingly packaged, Blue Prints is an artistic revitalization of an important and unique printing process and is the perfect gift book for photography and nature devotees.
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Zeva Oelbaum's first book of photographs, entitled Flowers in Shadow: A Photographer Rediscovers a Victorian Botanical Journal, was published by Rizzoli International Publications in January 2002. Her photographs have been widely published in such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine, House Beautiful, Art & Antiques, and Metropolitan Home. Oelbaum's photographs are exhibited internationally and are found in many corporate, museum, and private collections. In addition, her work appears in several prestigious anthologies, including The Family of Women. She teaches at the International Center of Photography in New York, and her photographs are represented by the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York.
Tracy Chevalier grew up in Washington D.C., and now lives in London with her husband and son. She has written three novels, including the best-selling Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Tracy Chevalier grew up in Washington D.C., and now lives in London with her husband and son. She has written three novels, including the best-selling Girl With a Pearl Earring.
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This review is from: Blue Prints: The Natural World In Cyanotype Photos (Hardcover)
As digital imaging takes over photography, large format, fine art photography using historical techniques such as cyanotype will become very rare and hopefully valuable. I purchased several 8x10 large format cameras for use with making cyanotype prints. Sure, I love my Nikon D200 and plan to get a D700 as well, but I don't believe digital images will create fine art photographic art that will appreciate in value compared to large format film images.
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Beautiful photographs in a nearly forgotten format,
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This review is from: Blue Prints: The Natural World In Cyanotype Photos (Hardcover)
Zeva Oelbaum's cyanotype botanicals (blue photographic prints) create an unexpected, otherworldly effect. Zeva's own words (further below, from the introduction), capture the scientific, photographic properties of cyanotype, but there is a romantic mood created by the simplicity of color and shape of these contemporary images from an antique and nearly-forgotten 19th-century process.
About her own work with blue print photography, Oelbaum writes: "I became fascinated by the cyanotype process when I learned that it holds an important, if unrecognized, place in the history of photography. In 1843, British botanist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) published a landmark volume of over four hundred cyanotypes entitled British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. This book was the first to be illustrated entirely with photographs. To make the prints, Atkins placed the algae specimens on paper coated with iron salts, then exposed it to sunlight. When she washed the print in water, the outcome was a white specimen outlined on a prussian blue background. Images created in this manner came to be known as blue prints. In this way she created photograms, or 'shadowgraphs' as she called them, of each original plant." The book is a striking example of the multitude of shapes and forms that nature provides, if we only know how to look. For more information on "Blue Prints," visit BellemeadeBooks(dot)blogspot(dot)com and search for "cyanotype."
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a beautiful book!,
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This review is from: Blue Prints: The Natural World In Cyanotype Photos (Hardcover)
I was lucky enough to stumble upon this gem in a discount store, amongst all the other boring coffee table artbooks. The pictures are absolutely stunning and inspiring. It's sad that photographic processes like this are falling by the wayside. If you love blue and photography, then get this book.
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