Karl Blossfeldt
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  alternate name: Photography of plants--Catalogs
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Black-and-white photography--Catalogs
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Plants--Pictorial works--Catalogs
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Photography, Artistic--Catalogs
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31011669
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128415
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131218
abstract: Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a great pioneer of botanical photography, yet he was neither a professional photographer nor a botanist. A professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin, he was a sculptor and amateur photographer, and his interest in the plant world was originally educational. Fascinated by the structure of plants, whose apparently artistic forms were created by biological expediency, he realized that photography could be a useful teaching tool, allowing his students to see and compare many natural forms. Blossfeldt worked with a homemade camera and gathered and photographed his own plant samples, magnifying them by up to 45 times.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310122981
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310122992
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310189597
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/311147484
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31011669
language: eng
language: ger
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: Includes translation
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301270299

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