Screen LibrarySilent beauties : photographs from the 1920s /
"Leendert Blok experimented with color photography and the use of the panoramic format. In the twenties, the Dutch photographer worked in close collaboration with flower producers, providing color prints and autochromes for the display catalogues of the various species they cultivated. Blok cap...
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| Published: |
Hatje Cantz,
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| Publisher Address: | Ostfildern : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Leendert Blok experimented with color photography and the use of the panoramic format. In the twenties, the Dutch photographer worked in close collaboration with flower producers, providing color prints and autochromes for the display catalogues of the various species they cultivated. Blok captured flowers like objects of desire, using the Autochrome Lumière technique. For Blok, photography relates above all to the gaze. Muted tones and soft bronze hues reveal a timeless world of flora, in which corolla, petals, and buds are sublimated by chiaroscuro. The flowers stand out against a plain |
| Item Description: | Originally published Editions Xavier Barral, Paris, 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | 173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm |
| ISBN: |
9783775740371 : 3775740376 |
| Index Number: | TR724 |
| CLC: | J439.5 |
| Call Number: | J439.5/B652 |