Karl Blossfeldt :: Adiantum pedatum

(Maiden hair fern), 1928.

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“Working
at the Hochschule für die Bildenden Künste (Berlin School for Decorative Arts),
he undertook a long-term project – collecting, classifying and drawing plants
in order to produce a unique portfolio of vegetation. In Berlin, Rome, Greece
and Africa, he puts together a photographic inventory of reality and flora.
[…] But Blossfeldt sees the form of a plant and its growth as an integral
universal part and pattern that can be applied to not only understanding human
beings but to architecture and industrial arts. A thistle brings to mind the
tympanum of a Gothic church, the stalk of a horsetail – an ancient column, the
coiled ends of ferns – a bishop’s crosier.” 

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