Leendert Blok - Silent Beauties
Color Photographs from the 1920s
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Author
Publication
2015 - Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG
Language
English
Word Count
44,000 words, Guess
Page Count
176 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139783775740371
- ISBN-103775740376
- OCLC Control Number918791880
- Better World Books9783775740371
- Open LibraryOL33305282M
Classifications
- LCCTR724 .B56x 2015
Description
"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 dark background, alluding to the famous vanitas of the Dutch Golden Age. Tulips, dahlias, daffodils, irises, hyacinths, and peonies reveal themselves in all their glorious diversity. The photographs of Leendert Blok are reminiscent of botanists' slides of yore, immersing us in the immanence of plant life, in which each flower becomes sculpture"--Publisher's description.
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