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| Photographers of the Marvelous |
Alessandro Bavari | ||
| If Hieronymous Bosch had had a camera... | ||
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| Il giardino di Jerome (Jerome's garden), 1998 | Citta' di Gomorra (Gomorrah City), 2000 | Il Varco (The gate), 2000 |
Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) | ||
| Plant forms as stately architecture Online exhibit | ||
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| Equisetum hiemale | Cucurbita | Aristolochia clematitis |
Book: Karl Blossfeldt: 1865-1932 (Photo Book Series) Curator's Web log entry | ||
Don Hong-Oai (1929-2004) | ||
| Oriental landscapes come to life.. | ||
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| At Play, Tianzi Mountain, 1986 | Solitary Wooden Boat, Hunan, 1991 | Pine Peak, 1997 |
| Gallery representation here and here | ||
Connie Imboden | ||
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| Untitled (7146.31), 1997 | Untitled (7857.8), 1998 | Untitled (7790.13), 1998 |
Kim Keever | ||
| New York photographer who photographs landscapes made inside a 100-gallon aquarium
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| Turtle Skull Rock, 2000 | Girl on a Road, 1999 | In Dreams, 2000 |
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Dora Maar (1907-1997) | ||
Surrealist photographer. For a biography, see Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar
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| le pere Ubu, 1936 | sans titre, 1935 | 29, rue d'Astorg, 1936 |
An excellent reference on photography in the Surrealist movement: L'Amour fou: Photography and Surrealism
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Lori Nix | ||
| Tabletop photographer with an amazing series of museum-like settings called "The City"
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| Natural History, 2005 | Aquarium | |
Rosamond Purcell | ||
| The premier photographic interpreter of museum specimens | ||
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| Hydrocephalic child whose head has opened like a flower | Frog - Colosthethus bocagei | Uncurated miscellani |
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Frederick Sommer (1905-1999) | ||
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| Arizona Landscape, 1945 | Found Painting, 1949 | Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St.John, 1966 |
Monograph: The Art of Frederick Sommer : Photography, Drawing, Collage
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Hiroshi Sugimoto | ||
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| Photography of museum dioramas | ||
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| Gorilla, 1976 | Devonian Period, 1992 | Earliest Human Relatives, 1992 |
Arthur Tress | ||
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| Proctologist's Delight, 1976 | from Teapot Opera, 1980 | from Fish Tank Sonata, 2000 |
Books: Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage : Photographs 1956-2000
Teapot Opera Fish Tank Sonata
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Jerry Uelsmann | ||
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The Old Master of pre-Photoshop surrealist juxtaposition. The images below are from Museum Studies
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| Homage to Joseph Cornell, 1998 | Untitled, 1992 | Untitled("Yosemite"), 1990 |
Joel-Peter Witkin | ||
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| Cupid and Centaur, 1992 | Gods of Earth and Heaven, 1988 | Waiting for de Chirico in the Artist's Section of Purgatory, 1994 |
Online exhibits here, here, and here. A good survey of his work: Witkin
Warning: Viewer discretion advised! A strange world of chimeras, freaks, cadavers, and loose body parts... | ||
