Alphabet of Plants: Masters of the Camera Fatboy Slim From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices

From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery

a radical or a social climber

and from Frankfurt in the west to Berlin in the east

The beautifully written

bilingual in German and English

Alphabet of Plants: Masters of the Camera Fatboy Slim From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practicesKarl Blossfeldt (1865 1932) was neither a professional photographer nor a natural scientist. He was a sculptor, amateur photographer, and a professor at Berlin's school of arts and crafts where he taught modeling. His interest in the plant world was of an artistic and didactic nature: he was fascinated by the structure of plants, their organic configuration, and their "lofty artistic form" born "of expediency," which he wanted to illustrate and