Tag: silent beauties

Tulips (Autochrome), ca. 1927

Leendert Blok :: Floriculture, tulips. Example of early photography made according to the autochrome process. The Netherlands, ca. 1927. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Floriculture, tulips. Example of early photography made according to the autochrome process. The Netherlands, ca. 1927. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Floriculture, tulips. Example of early photography made according to the autochrome process. The Netherlands, ca. 1927. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad

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.

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