Karl Blossfeldt

Name: Karl Blossfeldt
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Ann Wilde, Jürgen Wilde, Jurgen Wilde , Ulrike Meyer Stump

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MIT Press
02 February 2001

Individual photographers; Photographs: collections

Series: The MIT Press

Newly discovered photographic collages by early-twentieth-century photographer Karl Blossfeldt.

Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) achieved overnight fame in the late 1920s with the first publication of his photographs of plants. Those photographs, which revealed the inner structures of the organic forms, immediately made him a pioneer of New Objectivity-an innovative movement in art and photography of the 1920s and 1930s. Blossfeldt, however, was neither a trained photographer nor a botanist. He was a sculptor and art professor who did his photographic work to generate teaching material for his students.

The publication of this book is the result of an extraordinary event-the 1997 discovery in Blossfeldt's estate of sixty-one previously unknown collages, in virtually mint condition, of photographic contact prints arranged on large cardboard sheets. Blossfeldt apparently used these to study the relation and similarity of the photographs and to compare them graphically and aesthetically. On some, Blossfeldt had made marks or handwritten notations. Others show lines for cropping. The collages, published here for the first time, unveil a hidden treasure of modern photography and cast fresh light on the systematic approach Blossfeldt used in his photographic studies. All collages are reproduced in four colors. Introducing the book is an essay by Swiss art historian Ulrike Meyer-Stump, a Lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts. Not for sale in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Austria

Introduction by: Ulrike Meyer Stump
Edited by: Ann Wilde, Jürgen Wilde, Jurgen Wilde
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 324mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 1.397kg
ISBN: 9780262025010
ISBN 10: 0262025019
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 145
Publication Date: 02 February 2001
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ann Wilde is curator of the Karl Blossfeldt Archive. Jurgen Wilde is curator of the Karl Blossfeldt Archive.

Winner of <PrizeName>Chosen Best Historical Monograph for 2001 by photo-eye Books as part of their annual Best Photography Books of the Year Awards.</PrizeName> 2001
Winner of Chosen Best Historical Monograph for 2001 by photo-eye Books as part of their annual Best Photography Books of the Year Awards. 2001
Winner of Chosen Best Historical Monograph for 2001 by photo-eye Books as part of their annual Best Photography Books of the Year Awards.</PrizeName> 2001