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Capturing nature

Title
Capturing nature / [edited by] Matthew Zucker, Pia Östlund ; with contributions by: Harry Willis Fleming, Nicole Hanquart & Régine Fabri, Naomi Hume, Jessica C. Linker, Adam Lowe, Pia Östlund, Harriet Rix, Michele Rodda ; historical texts by: Alois Auer von Welsbach, Franz Ernst Brückmann, Ernst Fischer, Ernst Wilhelm Martius, Eric P. Newman.
Publication
  • New York : Zucker Art Books, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Zucker, Matthew
  • Östlund, Pia
Description
352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 33 cm
Summary
"Capturing Nature is the ultimate guide to nature printing, a beautiful and invaluable reference work for scholars, artists, designers, botanists, and anyone interested in nature, botanical illustration, and printing. Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of natural objects such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakeskin, and more to produce an image. The Zucker Collection is the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled, with more than 13,000 images across 130 rare and seminal works from 1733 to 1902, including journals, published books, unique manuscripts, American currency, and instructional texts related to nature printing. For the first time, readers will be able to view these nature prints presented side by side, enabling unique comparisons and undertaking a visually stunning journey through the developments over a 150-year period in printing methods including photography and examples of cyanotypes." -- Publisher's description.
Subject
  • Nature prints > Catalogs
  • Nature in art > Catalogs
  • Natural history illustration > Catalogs
  • Botanical illustration > Catalogs
  • Botanical illustration
  • Natural history illustration
  • Nature in art
  • Nature prints
Genre/Form
Catalogs.
Note
  • Title page is on page 41.
  • Edition of 500 copies.
  • 7-page timeline-leporello laid in.
  • "Capturing Nature presents forty-five varied nature printing methods, identified within the Zucker Collection. These are described under Direct Impressions on pages 161-168 and Indirect Impressions on pages 177-192. The Zucker Collection consists of 130 items, mostly books and journals. Each item is numbered in date order from B001 to B130. These numbers are used throughout this book to reference the book list on pages 169-176" -- Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Binding (note)
  • Paperback with 2 blind embossed nature prints on front and back cover.
Call Number
MDI+ 22-4973
ISBN
  • 9780979032134
  • 097903213X
OCLC
1346572522
Title
Capturing nature / [edited by] Matthew Zucker, Pia Östlund ; with contributions by: Harry Willis Fleming, Nicole Hanquart & Régine Fabri, Naomi Hume, Jessica C. Linker, Adam Lowe, Pia Östlund, Harriet Rix, Michele Rodda ; historical texts by: Alois Auer von Welsbach, Franz Ernst Brückmann, Ernst Fischer, Ernst Wilhelm Martius, Eric P. Newman.
Publisher
New York : Zucker Art Books, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Binding
Paperback with 2 blind embossed nature prints on front and back cover.
Added Author
Zucker, Matthew, editor.
Östlund, Pia, editor.
Research Call Number
MDI+ 22-4973
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