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Conversation with Karl Blossfeldt is a website which was produced during a project entitled FieldWork, in July 2001. FieldWork resulted from a residency with Æ Lab and Boreal Art/Nature, the first and only one I participated in, during the years that these residencies were hosted at my shared country house. View the site in a separate window, by clicking on any of these photos. |
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In a nutshell, my own site represents a fictitional conversation between Karl Blossfeldt and Annelisa Schran, a young new media student and naturalist. She collects plant samples, and scans them in different ways to then produce web-page rollovers which emphasize plant structures, much in the same spirit as Karl Blossfeldt's own photographic work. In a Boreal Art/Nature publication about the project, Justin Wonnacott provides insight into FieldWorks. This publication is available through Boreal Art/nature. Click on "publications and archives".
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" Lorraine Gilbert's artwork 'Conversations' is an homage structured around the images and sensibilities established by Karl Blossfeldt. He made a large archive of rigorously simple photographs of plant forms for use in his drawing and modelling classes.Although Blossfeldt's photographs were originally made to be classroom instructional aids, his work became much better known in the late 1920s when it was associated with the influential Neue Sachlichkeit movement in German photography. The 1928 publication Urformen der Kunst defines his modern, economic treatment of natural forms." exerpt from: "Radiolarian life, the parts of a flower and the philosopher's stone", Justin Wonnacott, 2001 |
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