CDROM VERSION ABBOTT ANSEL ADAMS ROBERT ADAMS ALVAREZ BRAVO ARBUS ATGET BELLOCQ BLOSSFELDT BOURKE-WHITE BRANDT BRASSA CALLAHAN CAMERON COBURN CUNNINGHAM DeCARAVA DOISNEAU EGGLESTON EVANS FRIEDLANDER GILPIN GUTMANN HINE KERTESZ KLEIN KOUDELKA LANGE LARTIGUE LAUGHLIN LEVITT MAPPLETHORPE MODEL MODOTTI MUYBRIDGE NADAR NEWMAN O'SULLIVAN OUTERBRIDGE RIIS RODCHENKO SALGADO SHERMAN SHORE SMITH SOMMER ...

Karl Blo feldt, 1865-1932 Karl Blo feldt was a botanist and photographer in turn-of-the-century Berlin. His entire photographic output is devoted to plant parts: twig ends, seed pods, tendrils, leaf buds, etc. These he meticulously arranged against stark backgrounds and photographed in magnification, so that unfamiliar shapes from the messy vegetal world are revealed as startling, elegant ...