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"The plant pictures of the German photo pioneer Karl BLOSSFELDT are of such beauty and originality that they transcend the medium of photography.
For more than 30 years, BLOSSFELDT has been taking thousands of photographs in a rigorous formal language that has transformed 19th-century image production into the 20th century, giving the two-dimensional art form an almost sculptural quality.
The images, which are staged as simply as they are minimalist in front of simple cardboard backgrounds, are given their plasticity by BLOSSFELDT's virtuoso lighting design. They reveal everything about themselves, but nothing about the man behind the camera.
These still lifes, which so definitively cast their objects into form, are a milestone in the history of photography and, because of their aesthetics, still exert a lasting fascination on all connoisseurs of the medium." (free translated publisher note, original text: © Taschen Verlag, Köln)
Content:
Portfolio
'Between Ornament and New Objectivity - Plant Photography by Karl Blossfeldt' (Hans Christian Adam)
'Forms of Art Form' (Karl Nierendorf)
'Wonder Garden of Nature' (Karl Blossfeldt)
'Miracles in nature' (Otto Dannenberg)
Biography / Bibliography
About the publisher and author, Hans-Christian Adam:
Hans C. Adam studied psychology, art history and communication science in Göttingen and Vienna. As a specialist for historical imagery, he has numerous articles and books, i.a. for travel and war photography, published.
He has already released the titles 'Edward Sheriff Curtis: The Indians of North America', 'Karl Blossfeldt, Eugène Atget: Paris and Berlin, Portrait of a City'.
Book Review:
"It would be a slight exaggeration to say that informed photographers have eagerly awaited this volume with Karl BLOSSFELDT's published oeuvre." (The New York Times)
For more than 30 years, BLOSSFELDT has been taking thousands of photographs in a rigorous formal language that has transformed 19th-century image production into the 20th century, giving the two-dimensional art form an almost sculptural quality.
The images, which are staged as simply as they are minimalist in front of simple cardboard backgrounds, are given their plasticity by BLOSSFELDT's virtuoso lighting design. They reveal everything about themselves, but nothing about the man behind the camera.
These still lifes, which so definitively cast their objects into form, are a milestone in the history of photography and, because of their aesthetics, still exert a lasting fascination on all connoisseurs of the medium." (free translated publisher note, original text: © Taschen Verlag, Köln)
Content:
Portfolio
'Between Ornament and New Objectivity - Plant Photography by Karl Blossfeldt' (Hans Christian Adam)
'Forms of Art Form' (Karl Nierendorf)
'Wonder Garden of Nature' (Karl Blossfeldt)
'Miracles in nature' (Otto Dannenberg)
Biography / Bibliography
About the publisher and author, Hans-Christian Adam:
Hans C. Adam studied psychology, art history and communication science in Göttingen and Vienna. As a specialist for historical imagery, he has numerous articles and books, i.a. for travel and war photography, published.
He has already released the titles 'Edward Sheriff Curtis: The Indians of North America', 'Karl Blossfeldt, Eugène Atget: Paris and Berlin, Portrait of a City'.
Book Review:
"It would be a slight exaggeration to say that informed photographers have eagerly awaited this volume with Karl BLOSSFELDT's published oeuvre." (The New York Times)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Otto Danneberg
- Format
- HC (no dusrt jacket, as issued), 14 x 19,5 x 4 cm., 544 pp., richly b/w illustrated, text language: English