Re: Photography: Soulcatcher Studio: Karl Blossfeldt Photogravures (URL)
by steveo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Steven M. O'Neill)
Dec 17, 2003 at 08:01 PM
Eli the Bearded <*@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Site: Photography: Soulcatcher Studio: Karl Blossfeldt Photogravures
>Category: images/art-sites
>
>"Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a German instructor of sculpture who
>used his remarkable photographs of plant studies to educate his
>students about design in nature. Self-taught in photography, he
>devoted himself to the study of nature, photographing nothing but
>plants for thirty-five years."
"[A] traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form
the chief embellishment."
--Charles Darwin, _The Voyage of the Beagle_, Chapter 21
--
Steven O'Neill steveo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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