Tag: Dutch photographer

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

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

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

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.