Tag: flower portrait

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.

Tulip Black Parrot, 1927

autochrome of tulip 1927 leendert blok
Leendert Blok :: Tulip Black Parrot, The Netherlands, precise location unknown, ca. 1927. Autochrome. Early colour photography. Original image | src Spaarnestad Photo
Leendert Blok :: Tulip Black Parrot, The Netherlands, precise location unknown, ca. 1927. Autochrome. Early colour photography. Original image | src Spaarnestad Photo
Leendert Blok :: Tulip Black Parrot, The Netherlands, precise location unknown, ca. 1927. Autochrome. Early colour photography. As it appears in Les extravagantes, Editions Xavier Barral, 2015. | src l'œil de la photographie
Leendert Blok :: Tulip Black Parrot, The Netherlands, precise location unknown, ca. 1927. Autochrome. Early colour photography. As it appears in Les extravagantes, Editions Xavier Barral, 2015. | src l’œil de la photographie

Copland’s Tulips ca. 1927

Leendert Blok :: Tulip, Copland's Favorite, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulip, Copland’s Favorite, The Netherlands, ca. 1927. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulips, Copland's Purple. Lisse, Nederland, omstreeks 1927. Autochrome. | src Nationaal Archief
Leendert Blok :: Tulips, Copland’s Purple. Lisse, Nederland, omstreeks 1927. Autochrome. | src Nationaal Archief

Absalon and Gloria Nigrorum

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 :: 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
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

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

Etudes de Fleurs ca. 1930

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de fleurs [with stem] [magnolias (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de fleurs [with stem] [magnolias (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de Fleurs [water lilies (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de Fleurs [water lilies (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery

Houston Magnolia, ca. 1996

John Dugdale :: Houston Magnolia, ca. 1996 (Printed 2010)
John Dugdale :: Houston Magnolia, ca. 1996 (Printed 2010) + Emily Dickinson poem | src Holden Luntz Gallery and John Dugdale Studio
Emily Dickinson poem

I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too –
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.
(Emily Dickinson)

Hagemeyer’s flowers (I)

Johan Hagemeyer :: Magnolia Blossom, 1925. «This rare image of a magnolia flower, a sublime and thoughtful botanical close-up that reflects Hagemeyer’s early horticutural training». | src Bonhams
Johan Hagemeyer :: Rose. Pasadena, 1929. Gelatin silver print. | src OAC
Johan Hagemeyer :: [Rose. Pasadena.] [negative], 1929. | src OAC
Johan Hagemeyer :: Calla Lily, negative 1925; print 1926. Collotype. From: Pictorial Photography in America. Vol. 4 | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Johan Hagemeyer :: Yellow Tulip, 1920s-1940s. Gelatin silver print. | src The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Johan Hagemeyer :: [Flower]. Gelatin silver print. | src OAC
Johan Hagemeyer :: [Flower]. Gelatin silver print. | src OAC