ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/2/2024 Green-Wood Cemetery presents Eugene Richards launching 'Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery'DATE 6/1/2024 There's no such thing as being extra in June! Pride Month Staff Picks 2024DATE 5/24/2024 Beautifully illustrated essays on Arab ModernistsDATE 5/19/2024 Of bodies and knowing, in 'Christina Quarles: Collapsed Time'DATE 5/17/2024 192 Books presents Robert Storr and Lloyd Wise launching Heni 'Focal Points' seriesDATE 5/17/2024 Lee Quiñones signing at Perrotin Store New YorkDATE 5/15/2024 A gorgeous new book on Bauhaus textile innovator Otti BergerDATE 5/13/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Tony Caramanico and Zack Raffin launching 'Montauk Surf Journals'DATE 5/12/2024 Black Feminist World-Building in LaToya Ruby Frazier’s ‘Monuments of Solidarity’DATE 5/10/2024 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez and Juan Ferrer on 'Let's Become Fungal!'DATE 5/8/2024 The World of Tim Burton in rare, archival materialsDATE 5/5/2024 Eugene Richards' eloquent new photobook documenting Green-Wood CemeteryDATE 5/5/2024 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez and David Horvitz on 'Let's Become Fungal' | EVENTSANNA SKRABACZ | DATE 3/24/2017Artbook Pages Through Karl Blossfeldt: MasterworksThe flora in Karl Blossfeldt: Masterworks do not scream "botanical photography." Instead the plants appear to be composed in another medium entirely—maybe iron sculpture or illustration. This visual play may be attributed to the fact that Blossfeldt (1865–1932)—who is now best remembered as a photographer—was actually, primarily, a sculptor. His photographs of plants were originally made as teaching tools, visual references for his students at a Berlin art school in the early 1900s. As a self-taught photographer, Blossfeldt brought an air of innocence and experimentation to the photographs. With a sculptor's eye for gesture and an inherent fascination with patterns in nature, he created a highly original way of photographing plants. |