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

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At first intended as personal reference material in his work as sculptor and teacher, the remarkable nature photographs of Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) attained critical acclaim in 1928 when he published Urformen der Kunst (Archetypes of Art). His work influenced and helped to establish up to date German photography. At the same time as the style of the time used to be soft-center of attention, impressionistic photographs, Blossfeldt’s purpose governed his photographic method and resulting magnificent prints: direct lighting to define form, sharp center of attention to expose detail and texture, enlarging as much as 27 times actual size to reveal structure that in the past used to be invisible or overpassed by the naked eye.
His subject matter ― the leaves, buds, stems, seed pods, tendrils, and twigs of plant life ― sparkles with an honest simplicity and clarity that discloses not only the wonder and science of nature, but also the distinct similarities between the form developed by nature and that produced by man. In the infinite variety of form in the plant world, Blossfeldt found many examples of shape and structure that, when photographed his way, resemble the forms of man’s artistic (particularly architectural) styles ― from Gothic through Art Nouveau. His images imply that man’s art mirrors nature and suggest that nature, in its continuous reproduction and adaptation, also creates its own art.
Blossfeldt’s exquisite and historically vital photographs continue to be prominently exhibited and acclaimed right through the world. Painstakingly reproduced for this edition, his 120 unretouched plates will delight artists and illustrators, naturalists and philosophers, photographers, and any individual who is intrigued by the beauty, form, and design of nature.

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