An online exhibition of photographers who give special insight into the wonders of nature or create new worlds
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| 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
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Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932)
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Plant forms as stately architecture
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| Equisetum hiemale
| Cucurbita
| Aristolochia clematitis
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Online exhibit
Book: Karl Blossfeldt: 1865-1932 (Photo Book Series)
Curator's Web log entry
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Don Hong-Oai (1929-2004)
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| Oriental landscapes come to life..
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| At Play, Tianzi Mountain, 1986
| Solitary Wooden Boat, Hunan, 1991
| Pine Peak, 1997
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| Gallery representation
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| Untitled (7146.31), 1997
| Untitled (7857.8), 1998
| Untitled (7790.13), 1998
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Kim Keever
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| 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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| Gallery representation |
Dora Maar (1907-1997)
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| Surrealist photographer.
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| le pere Ubu, 1936
| sans titre, 1935
| 29, rue d'Astorg, 1936
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Biography: Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar |
An excellent reference on photography in the Surrealist movement: L'Amour fou: Photography and Surrealism
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| Tabletop photographer with an amazing series of museum-like settings called "The City"
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| Natural History, 2005
| Aquarium
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| Cinquefoil, 1975
| Weighing the Planets, 1984
| Heart and Flower, 2010
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| The premier photographic interpreter of museum specimens
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Photos are from:
- Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters
- Illuminations: A Bestiary
- Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors
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| Hydrocephalic child whose head has opened like a flower
| Frog - Colosthethus bocagei
| Uncurated miscellani
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| Curator's Web log entry |
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| Arizona Landscape, 1945
| Found Painting, 1949
| Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St.John, 1966
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Monograph: The Art of Frederick Sommer : Photography, Drawing, Collage
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| Photography of museum dioramas |
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| Gorilla, 1976
| Devonian Period, 1992
| Earliest Human Relatives, 1992
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| Proctologist's Delight, 1976
| from Teapot Opera, 1980
| from Fish Tank Sonata, 2000
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Books: Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage : Photographs 1956-2000
Teapot Opera Fish Tank Sonata
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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
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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
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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...
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All photographs are copyright by the respective photographers and are displayed here solely for educational purposes
