Karl Blossfeldt works in black and white and his work usually features plants and living things. His work is primarily still life and his inspiration came from doing a project in Italy when collecting plant samples for drawing classes, he began to document the plants he found being particularly interested in the way the plants grew. His set up seems to be studio more than anything and I like the way he has used a dark background for lighter coloured plants and lighter backgrounds for darker coloured plants. The images I have collected here all feature curly style plants which I feel ties in with my image very well, I like the twisting shapes and curves the plants create. His images are almost abstarct like Olivia Parker's images but different in the way that the whole subject is not photographed and not framed by grid like structures. Blossfeldt used a homemade camera to photograph the his subjects, the camera being able to magnify the object up to thirty times it's natural size which would help him capture all the minute details like tiny hairs on the plants surface. Blossfeldt had a book published in 1928 which made him famous almost overnight and his work is rarely seen now but remains iconic in the history of photography.
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