Like his contemporary Karl Blossfeldt, photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch is known for the radiant precision and compositional elegance of his plant studies. The vintage prints in this book represent the height of Renger-Patzsch's meticulous botanical image-making, and fill much needed chapter in the history of photography. Their rich tonal fidelity and sharp contours are also of sublime beauty in their own right.
Like his contemporary Karl Blossfeldt, photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch is known for the radiant precision and compositional elegance of his plant studies. The vintage prints in this book represent the height of Renger-Patzsch's meticulous botanical image-making, and fill much needed chapter in the history of photography. Their rich tonal fidelity and sharp contours are also of sublime beauty in their own right.