Category: 1930s

Irises, Arthemius, 1927-1930

Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Arthemius, ca. 1927. Autochrome. | src Box Galerie
Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Arthemius, ca. 1927. Autochrome. | src Box Galerie
Leendert Blok :: Flowers, Flower bulbs. Irises, ca. 1930. Example of early color photography using the Autochrome process. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Flowers, Flower bulbs. Irises, ca. 1930. Example of early color photography using the Autochrome process. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad

Four Tulips, ca. 1930

Leendert Blok :: Floriculture, tulips, flowers, bulbs. Four variegated tulips. Example of early color photography using the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, about 1930]. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad and Flow Magazine

Blok applied this first practical color process to photograph flowers for Dutch growers in the Bollenstreek. Using orange, violet and green colored very fine potato starch granules which act as a filter and which are applied to a black and white positive on glass, an image is created that can be viewed as a color slide. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad and Flow Magazine

Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Absalon (above) and Gloria Nigrorum. The Netherlands, 1920-1935. Autochrome. Early colour photography. | src Box Galerie & The Garden of Delight
Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Absalon (above) and Gloria Nigrorum. The Netherlands, 1920-1935. Autochrome. Early colour photography. | src Box Galerie & The Garden of Delight

Leendert Blok’s Spectracolor

Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Examples of early color photography using the Spectracolor process, circa 1930. | src Het Parool and Galleryviewer
Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Examples of early color photography using the Spectracolor process, circa 1930. | src Het Parool and Galleryviewer
Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Examples of early color photography using the Spectracolor process, circa 1930. | src Het Parool and Galleryviewer
Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Examples of early color photography using the Spectracolor process, circa 1930. | src Het Parool and Galleryviewer
Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Examples of early color photography using the Spectracolor process, circa 1930. | src Het Parool and Galleryviewer
Leendert Blok :: Tulips. Examples of early color photography using the Spectracolor process, circa 1930. | src Het Parool and Galleryviewer

Blok’s Selfportrait, 1930s

Leendert Blok :: Zelfportret Leendert Blok, omstreeks 1930-1935. Autochrome. Courtesy Galerie Dudok de Groot. | src Het Parool
Leendert Blok :: Zelfportret Leendert Blok, omstreeks 1930-1935. Autochrome. Courtesy Galerie Dudok de Groot. | src Het Parool
Leendert Blok's early color flower portraits compiled in Silent Beauties (2015) | src Het Parool and Hatje Cantz
Leendert Blok’s early color flower portraits compiled in Silent Beauties (2015) | src Het Parool & Hatje Cantz

Tulip and daffodil, 1927-1931

Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulip 'Golden Age'. Lisse, The Netherlands, May 1931. Spectracolor. | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulip ‘Golden Age’. Lisse, The Netherlands, May 1931. Spectracolor. | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad