Karl Blossfeldt

by Adam, Hans-Christian

• ISBN13: 9783822834817
• ISBN10: 3822834815
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-02
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Portfolio	p. 6
Zwischen Ornamentik und Neuer Sachlichkeit - die Pflanzenphotographie von Karl Blossfeldt / Between Ornament and New Objectivity - The Plant Photography of Karl Blossfeldt / Entre ornement et Nouvelle Objectivite - Les photographies de plantes de Karl Blossfeldt	p. 14
Urformen der Kunst / Art Forms in Nature / Formes originelles de l'art	p. 24
Wundergarten der Natur / Magic Garden of Nature / Le jardin merveilleux de la nature	p. 136
Wunder in der Natur / Magic in Nature / Prodiges de la nature	p. 234
Biographie/Bibliographie / Biography/Bibliography	p. 248
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