Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis)

1977: "This photograph is a print made in 1995 from the original transparency. This was used as an illustration in Roger Phillips's book, The Wild Flowers of Britain, which was published in London by Pan Books in 1977. Phillips pioneered the use of photography for field guides to plants. His own curiosity about plants inspired him to produce the book. He was frustrated with the standard flora or field guide that catalogues plants by family and assumes that the user has some specialist botanical knowledge.

As a photographer, Phillips set out ‘to make a book in which the visual is paramount’. He organised the contents in a way that was logical and accessible to those without any special knowledge of botany. In fact, he reverts to much earlier models such as the florilegia (decorative flower books) of the 17th century, and arranges the plants by their season of flowering." Link

Ossabaw Island dead tree

1964: 1 photographic print, b&w ; 13 x 9 cm., on card 21 x 13 cm.
Photograph of a tree on Ossabaw Island Strengell used as part of [Marianne Strengell] her sources material for her textile designs. Identification (handwritten): #1 This is my favorite "Old age". Please treat it kindley. Link

Steamer taking on ice, in Taku Bay


"1895: Wilson, Veazie. Photograph album of Alaskan views." Link

Ice Falling from a Lofty Berg



"1862: After icebergs with a painter : a summer voyage to Labrador and around Newfoundland / by Louis L. Noble." Link