Karl Blossfeldt: 1865-1932
by Adam, Hans Christian
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 3822874388
- ISBN 13
- 9783822874387
- Seller
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Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
Taschen America Llc, 1999-04-01. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. 1999 Taschen (Cologne, Germany), 10 3/4 x 13 inches tall lime green hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, white lettering to front cover and spine, black endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of Blossfeldt's photographs, 359 pp. A near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a very good dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP19~ [7.5P] 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 are still-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject. Blossfeldt's intention was always to document his teaching methods and to establish a photographic archive of his work. Neither was to be, but his images have endured owing to their technical brilliance and their ongoing fascination to students in a number of disciplines.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SP19-0242-14262
- Title
- Karl Blossfeldt: 1865-1932
- Author
- Adam, Hans Christian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 3822874388
- ISBN 13
- 9783822874387
- Publisher
- Taschen America Llc
- Place of Publication
- Koln
- Date Published
- 1999-04-01
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 120 oz
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