karl blossfeldt

As someone who gets obsessive about shooting plants, all the various bits, and finds them endlessly fascinating, Karl Blossfeldt has long been a revered icon. There’s a new book of his photos…

Using a homemade camera, Karl Blossfeldt captured sculptural details of plants in the early 1900s, whether the geometry of a seed pod, or alien curl of a fern.

The 73 photographic plates in Robert Voit's The Alphabet of New Plants each frame a different floral detail, from bursting blooms to twisting branches.

Inspired by Parker Higgins’s set of Kindle screensavers, I’ve put together one of my own featuring the botanical photographs of Karl Blossfeldt. It has 17 images so far, most of which I…

Using a homemade camera, Karl Blossfeldt captured sculptural details of plants in the early 1900s, whether the geometry of a seed pod, or alien curl of a fern.

Karl Blossfeldt lived and worked in Berlin as a sculptor, teacher and photographer. His close-up photographs of plants and seeds began as a teaching e...

Karl Blossfeldt - Delphinium, Larkspur Part of a dried leaf magnified six times

Download premium png of Margined Pyramidal Saxifrage (Saxifraga Aizoon) leaf enlarged 8 times transparent png by Tong about png, texture, plant, sticker, and vintage 2210661

Photographer: Karl Blossfeldt | Cucurbita: Tendrils of a pumpkin, Magnified four times 1920s. High density multiple pigment print 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 (398 x 298 mm). This image first appeared in the classic portfolio Urformen der Kunst, some of the finest images of plant structure ever taken. | © Estate of Karl Blossfeldt

from Karl Blossfeldt Photography Prints