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A Link With Nature: Early Botanical Photography, 1850 鈥� 195
Inspired by a small collection of prints by the German Photographer Karl Blossfeldt in the Art Gallery of Alberta鈥檚 Collection, this exhibition brings together photographs of plants and flowers from the medium鈥檚 early years to the mid-twentieth century. It includes over 25 photographers working in Europe and North America and a myriad of photographic processes including, cyanotype, daguerreotype, autochrome, platinum print and gelatin silver print. Tracing the enduring influence of nature as subject matter, themes of the exhibition range from botanical study, to the symbolism of flowers in portraits, to modernist experiments with light and shadow.
Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Danielle Siemens.
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Inspired by a small collection of prints by the German Photographer Karl Blossfeldt in the Art Gallery of Alberta鈥檚 Collection, this exhibition brings together photographs of plants and flowers from the medium鈥檚 early years to the mid-twentieth century. It includes over 25 photographers working in Europe and North America and a myriad of photographic processes including, cyanotype, daguerreotype, autochrome, platinum print and gelatin silver print. Tracing the enduring influence of nature as subject matter, themes of the exhibition range from botanical study, to the symbolism of flowers in portraits, to modernist experiments with light and shadow.
Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Danielle Siemens.
Artists on show
- Adolphe Braun
- Auguste Lumière
- Bertha Jaques
- Edward Steichen
- Edward Weston
- Edwin Hale Lincoln
- Francis Bedford
- Harry Callahan
- Hippolyte Bayard
- Imogen Cunningham
- James E. McClees
- John Dillwyn Llewelyn
- John Vanderpant
- Karl Blossfeldt
- Leslie Gale Saunders
- Louis Lumière
- Mary Schäffer
- Mary Vaux Walcott
- Stephen Shore
- Washington Lafayette Germon
- William Copeland McCalla
- William H. Martin
- William Henry Fox Talbot
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