Karl Blossfeldt by Hans Christian Adam - 2004

TASCHEN. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Very Good.

Taschen, 2004-07-01. Paperback. Good.

EVERGREEN, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Edition 2004. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Köln: Taschen, 2001. Gebonden, 25 cm, 255 pp. Ills.: zwart/wit illustraties. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 3822834815. .

Germany: TASCHEN, 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A very clean copy. A serious man who earned his living as a teacher, Karl Blossfeldt (1865- 1932) seems an unlikely candidate for aesthetic canonisation. But his photographs of plants, taken in their 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 as do his contemporaries Eugene Atget and the recently rediscovered Charles Jones. In Blossfeldt's hands, plants and their constituent parts become almost architectural in their construction. Form and structure are laid bare to highlight the secrets of growth in the natural world, and to provide lessons that could be applied to industrial design. 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… Read More

TASCHEN, 2004-07-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!