Karl Blossfelt

Karl Blossfelt, from Art Forms In Nature, 1928

He is a German sculptor that became a photographer that takes black and white pictures of a portrait style of objects. He takes a cropped picture of objects not showing the whole picture. The shapes of the picture are mostly natural but due to the monochrome effect it makes it look a lot like metal like look.He did it monochrome at the time as that was the only way you could take pictures. This makes you think about how he was a model maker and how his pictures reflect that. The texture of the objects are very detailed and it makes a real focus on that.
He published his work in a book called Art Forms In Nature, 1928 . This was done with a camera of his won design that let him magnify the picture 30 times. His work wasn't viewed as art due to it originally thought as scientific analysis and to help in using nature in sculpting. His work was later though of as art.

His work is abstract in nature due to how detailed the pictures are of such small things that we see in the world. It shows parts of the plant you would never expect to see. 

Karl Blossfelt, from Art Forms In Nature, 1928

I think that the look of the plant makes it look a lot like a hand rail or an abstract garden feature. This makes it look unreal in some ways. Particularly this is not the whole plant, it is only a part of it.
The way he takes the picture gives it a only part of the whole picture feel due to how he selects only part of the object.

Although the monochrome makes the picture feel dead, as its of plants. When a plant has a loss in colour it is normally to represents it isn't living.

The way in which i will use his work to influence me is to crop the pictures to suit my needs for finding the alphabet. I will do this in raw editing and will possibly make mine black and white which will show the contrast and define the letter which i am trying to portray.
 Further more I will be trying to use his idea of finding small shapes to relate to my prodject from a bigger picture. Which is how I will find the letters, flicker will help with this too.