Karl Blossfeldt`s photographs of leaves, stems, flowers and seed pods are haunting in their beauty and in their insistent emphasis on form. His images celebrate a world of sinuous lines and ...

The term “biomimetics,” used to describe architecture that mimics natural forms and processes, was coined by Otto Schmitt in the mid-20th century, but the concept has been around for longer.

Self-taught German photographer Karl Blossfeldt(1865-1932)dedicated himself to the study of nature, he photographed flowers, buds and seed capsules exclusively for 35 years. His elegant images, ...

Karl Blossfeldt: Masterworks, out now from D.A.P., features 70 photographs selected from the thousands he created in his lifetime. Edited by Ann and Jürgen Wilde, photography collectors and the ...

Amsterdam: After its invention in mid-19th-century France, photography spent its own first 100 years as a fledgling art form. At its best, it was considered an imitation of painting; at its worst, it ...

Blossfeldt was at the centre of this movement, and explored the potential of the visual medium," says Hena Kapadia, gallery director, Tarq. A student and professor of design at Royal School of the ...

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Blossfeldt (Germany, 1865) was self-taught and since his youth a great lover of nature. As sculptor and modeller in a foundry for artwork, he used flowers and plants as inspiration for decorations.

What if plants were more intelligent than we have ever imagined? What if they could think, communicate or even dream? These speculative questions form the basis of Science/Fiction – A Non-History of ...

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Self-taught German photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) dedicated himself to the study of nature, he photographed flowers, buds and seed capsules exclusively for 35 years. His elegant images, ...