{"id":5393,"date":"2011-06-02T05:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:25:26","slug":"karl-blossfeld-urformen-der-kunst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/karl-blossfeld-urformen-der-kunst\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: KARL BLOSSFELDT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Karl Blossfeldt <\/span>(1865-1932) photographer &amp; teacher, achieved international recognition for his almost 6,000 micro photographs of plants taken around 1890. His teacher, Moritz Meurer, assigned him to make a collection of natural forms as inspiration. He wanted to show that all forms in art have their beginning in the natural forms of nature. He considered his work as a teaching tool, not as independent work of art. Each photograph was taken with the same clinical manner to provide a clear and objective documentation of structure. The objectivity and lack of sentimentality in his work readily connect him to such <em>New Objectivity<\/em> photographers as August Sander, Albert Renger Patzsch, The Bechers, Andreas Gursky and others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong><span class=\"first3words\"> Urformen Der Kunst is one of the most influential photography books to have ever been published. <\/span>Hard bound in green cloth with title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine and missing original dust jacket. The first edition published 1928 was in a smaller format, this 2nd edition is considered the most attractive. Photographs by Karl Blossfeldt. Introduction by Karl Nierendorf. Text in German. 148 pages, with 120 black and white plates printed in rich photogravure. Limited edition of 6000 hard bound copies. Blossfeldt&#8217;s photobook masterpiece (Archetypes of Art). Some wear and minor soiling to cloth boards. Foxing to endpages. Sunning to spine edge, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding still strong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bookseller Inventory# 25149<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Urformen Der Kunst<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><span id=\"book-author\">Blossfeldt, Karl<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-publisher\">Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-pubdate\">1929<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-binding\">Hard Bound<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-bookcondition\">Good<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-dustjacketcondition\">No Dust Jacket<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Edition:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-edition\">First Printing of the sought after Second Edition<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) photographer &amp; teacher, achieved international recognition for his almost 6,000 micro photographs of plants taken around 1890. His teacher, Moritz Meurer, assigned him to make a collection of natural forms as inspiration. He wanted to show that all forms in art have their beginning in the natural forms of nature. He considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-5393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":81,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15081,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions\/15081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}