Leendert Blok: Silent BeautiesPhotographs from the 1920s - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775740376 ISBN 13: 9783775740371

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Leendert Blok (1895 1986) 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3775740376
• ISBN 13: 9783775740371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176