"Blossfeldt approached his specimens as both a functional Constructivist, and a poetic Surrealist. He believed that "the plant must be valued as a totally artistic and architectural structure." This synthesis of aesthetic theories is what gives Blossfeldt's collection its unique gestalt. The black and white photogravure prints are a catalog of buds, seed cases, leaves, yet they also read as a horizon line of a botanic city. The monochromatic portraits, arranged with precise posture and photographed against stark backgrounds, convey the formidable austerity of architectural monoliths, or sculpted ironwork. Indeed, Blossfeldt's photographs depict his botanic specimens as fantastically large, and also meticulously designed. Photographing in turn-of-the-century Berlin, he was embedded in the dialogues of the New Objectivists: artists that encouraged objective documentation, where the subject was the thing, rather than the artist."
Anna Laurent in http://www.gardendesign.com/ideas/art-botany-karl-blo-feldt
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