A serious man who earned his living as a teacher, Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) seems an unlikely candidate for aesthetic canonization. But his photographs of plants, which he took in the thousands over more than thirty years, reveal a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the nineteenth and twentieth century worlds of image making. Beautifully but starkly composed against plain cardboard backgrounds, Blossfeldt's images, relying on a northern light for their sense of volume, reveal nothing of the man but everything of themselves. They are still-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their technical brilliance and the ongoing fascination of students and photographers. Like their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effective.
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Hans Christian Adam (born 1948) works as a photographic consultant in Gottingen. He has published many articles and some books on photography, and Taschen also publish his volume "Edward S. Curtis. The North American Indian".
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Gorgeous book,
By rgaken (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Karl Blossfeldt, 1865-1932 (Midsize) (Paperback)
This is a beautiful book, both in terms of content and layout. The full-page b&w photographs capture amazing detail and texture - and there are a lot of photographs. I happened to be looking for a book that had more photographs than text, and this was perfect. I bought it as a gift and ended up spending a lot of time pouring over it myself before giving it away because the photographs were so captivating.
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