[TheForge] Interesting books from Lee Valley

[Ries Niemi]

On Saturday, January 22, 2005, at 03:57 PM, RICK KORINEK wrote:

> The condition of the book as well as the edition usually
> define the price.  I wa doing a search of the book of
> phtographed plant forms by Karl Blossfeldt (original
> printing came out in 1928).  The prices ranges from over
> $3,000 for an original, first edition to $15 for a modern
> reprint.
> -Rick
>


Hey, thats nothing. I have a friend who was selling original Blossfeldt 
prints, and she was getting something like $3000 per photo. A lot of 
dealers cut the pages out of those books, and sell them page by page, 
for big bucks.
Blossfeldt was a blacksmith, you know.
Hence the uncanny attraction of his photos for most smiths.
Jean Whitesavage and Nick Lyle have made a ton of work inspired by 
Blossfeldt, or at least inspired by a similar fascination by plant 
forms rendered in metal.

http://www.whitesavageandlyle.com/

ries