Capturing Nature: 150 Years of Nature Printing
By Matthew Zucker
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Description
Nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of a natural object such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakes and more to produce an image. Matthew Zucker has spent decades curating the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled, with more than 13,000 images across 120 rare and seminal works. This gorgeous volume explores Zucker's collection, allowing readers to see these nature prints presented side by side for the first time.
Works explored include journals, published books, unique manuscripts, American currency and instructional texts related to nature printing from 1733 to 1902.
This gorgeous volume explores Zucker's collection, allowing readers to see these nature prints presented side by side for the first time and enabling unique comparisons while creating a visually stunning journey through the developments over a 150-year period in printing methods, including photography with examples of cyanotypes. The ultimate guide to nature printing, this is a beautiful reference work for scholars, artists, designers, botanists, and anyone interested in nature, botanical illustration, and printing.
Works explored include journals, published books, unique manuscripts, American currency and instructional texts related to nature printing from 1733 to 1902.
This gorgeous volume explores Zucker's collection, allowing readers to see these nature prints presented side by side for the first time and enabling unique comparisons while creating a visually stunning journey through the developments over a 150-year period in printing methods, including photography with examples of cyanotypes. The ultimate guide to nature printing, this is a beautiful reference work for scholars, artists, designers, botanists, and anyone interested in nature, botanical illustration, and printing.
360 pages
hardcover, colour illustrations
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