“Blossfeldt’s work can be seen as a transition between looking at photography as just science and looking at photography as art.”
Karl Blossfeldt's work can be considered a transition for photography from a science to an art, because of the way some of his photographs remain staged in appearance, and some of them appear as if a plant has just been plucked from the earth. Karl Blossfeldt aranged these objects to create different images on the photograph, some have been aranged to look like faces, vases and human bodies. As a science, pictures were supposed to be taken only one way, they were supposed to be taken in manner such that the objects they depicted would be clear, rather than being possibly anything. The scientific photograph is not staged, it is taken as it would look in its natural enviornment. For Example, the picture to the right could be just a plant, placed on a canvas, or it could be a mighty tree, or even a person. Photography as an art involves more creativity and staged situations than photography as a science, as an accepted manner of looking at, and taking, a picture.
This is a good start, Dominick. I see your point here, but I'm not sure I agree:
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In my experience with science experiments, control or finicky "staging" of the experiment is absolutely necessary to get results.
In other words, science is far more than mere observation.
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