Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was said to be 5 feet 3 inches tall, which gives you an idea of the size of the plants in the photo. Height is just one of the impressive features of plants from the Agave group. Their large basal rosettes of thick, fleshy sculpted leaves ending in a sharp point, plus …
If you have a gallery that meets the necessary security requirements, starting this summer, you can hire and display 40 prints by the renowned botanical photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) for a month at a cost of just £750. Absolute bargain. Karl Blossfeldt is a master botanical photographer. His talent ensured his works remain timeless classics. …
Today, 16 March, would have been the birthday of one of the greats – botanist and artist Anna Atkins (1799 – 1871). Atkins is believed to be the first woman to ever create a photographic book, and possibly the first woman to ever take a photograph. Her images are a type of photogram using what …
Plant Curator often daydreams about spending a few months at this time of year doing a photographic tour of the Californian desert wildflower regions. The ultimate plant lovers road trip would involve going south to north, from desert hotspot to desert hotspot, catching like dominos, the peak blooms in each place. In reality it’s not …
Read the poem, take the walk, look out for plants. The poem Where should we meet but in this shabby park Where the railings are missing and the branches black? Industrial pastoral, our circuit Of grass under ash, long standing water And unimportant sunsets flaring up Above the half-dismantled fair. Our place Of in-betweens, abandoned …
Claudio Troncoso Rojas is a Chilean photographer currently based in Santiago. He has shot many great series which explore the interactions between plants and human constructed landscapes or artefacts. A series of photographs gives the wider vision of the artist, and Rojas’ website displays this collective power well. Here we display a selection of images from different series, as every plant also offers …
Seattle based photographer Cody Cobb’s images project atmosphere, silence and mystery. There’s a story in all of them: Where does the road lead? Why has that tree fallen? What’s on the other side of the river? The plants – tones of green and brown, textures soft and hard, growth both ordered and chaotic, environments exotic …
The plant-inspired backgrounds to Kehinde Wiley’s (b.1977) portraits are decorative devices to displace the subject from their expected environment. This helps us lose some of our preconceptions, allowing us to see better. Plants being plants, they do a whole lot more than that. They play with stereotypes of young black male masculinity and sensitivity, highlight …
Canadian-born, german-based photographer Anne Hoerter is truly dedicated to her art. With compositions that combine many images, taking months to complete, she has been honing her technique for ten years. She takes her inspiration from Dutch still life paintings, botanical illustration from the 1800s, and nature’s many natural forms. Below she shares with us her …
When critics talk about Brett Weston (1911 – 1993) they often compare his work to that of his father’s, influential Modernist photographer Edward Weston. Or else, they discuss his place in the american male canon of twentieth century photographers, usually topped by his contemporary Ansel Adams. Like Adams, and his father, he focused on monochromatic …