"For him, the camera served only to bring out and reproduce plant details that had hitherto been ignored owing to their tininess." i burst out laughing at the use of that lovely word
originally employed as a modeller in a german governmental attempt to discover motifs in nature that could be employed industrially, karl blossfeldt took these photographs as reference material for his lectures. his technique of arranging specimens against a neutral background made for intense images of an almost abstract beauty
