Tag: close up

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

Tulips, Mr. Dames, ca. 1927

Leendert Blok :: Tulips, Mr. Dames, Lisse, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Autochrome. Early colour photography. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulips, Mr. Dames, Lisse, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Autochrome. Early colour photography. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulips, Mr. Dames, Lisse, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Autochrome. Early colour photography. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulips, Mr. Dames, Lisse, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Autochrome. Early colour photography. (Detail) | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad

Tulip, Eros, ca. 1927

Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Tulipa, Eros, Nederland, ca. 1927. Tirage aux encres pigmentaires. | src Les extravagantes ~ Box Galerie
Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Tulipa, Eros, Nederland, ca. 1927. Tirage aux encres pigmentaires. | src Les extravagantes ~ Box Galerie
Leendert Blok :: Tulip Bleu céleste or ‘Pensa Rosa’, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Autochrome.| src Het Parool and Hatje Cantz
Leendert Blok :: Tulip Bleu céleste or ‘Pensa Rosa’, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Autochrome.| src Het Parool and Hatje Cantz

Tulip Bleu céleste and Eros

Leendert Blok :: Tulip Bleu céleste or ‘Pensa Rosa’, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Autochrome.| src Het Parool and Hatje Cantz
Leendert Blok :: Tulip Bleu céleste or ‘Pensa Rosa’, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Autochrome.| src Het Parool and Hatje Cantz
Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Tulipa, Eros, Nederland, ca. 1927. Tirage aux encres pigmentaires. | src Les extravagantes ~ Box Galeri
Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Tulipa, Eros, Nederland, ca. 1927. Tirage aux encres pigmentaires. | src Les extravagantes ~ Box Galerie

Iris by Leendert Blok (1920s)

Lendeert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Ismene / Uma, 1920-1930. Autochrome. | src Moors Magazine and ODLP
Lendeert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Ismene / Uma, 1920-1930. Autochrome. | src Moors Magazine and ODLP | Detail
Lendeert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Ismene / Uma, 1920-1930. Autochrome. | src Moors Magazine and ODLP (detail)

Leendert Blok experimented with color process and with close-up shots that filled the screen. A pioneer of color photography, Blok worked closely in the 1920s with flower producers in The Netherlands, who were developing many new floral varieties and made high-quality color prints for their product catalogs.
Silent Beauties. Fotografien aus den 1920er-Jahren, Hatje Cantz, 2015.
Les extravagantes, portraits of flowers shot in autochrome by Lendeert Blok. Xavier Barral, 2015.