[TheForge] Interesting books from Lee Valley

[Kevin D]

A nice bunch of photo's here; http://www.artphiles.com/

Thanks for the connection Ries and Rick

Kevin

  >-----Original Message-----
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  >[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Ries Niemi
  >Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 2:01 PM
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  >Subject: Re: [TheForge] Interesting books from Lee Valley
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  >On Saturday, January 22, 2005, at 03:57 PM, RICK KORINEK wrote:
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  >> 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
  >>
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  >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
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