In 1890-1896 Karl Blossfeldt participated in a project in Italy, collecting plant material for drawing classes. During this period Blossfeldt started systematically documenting plant samples photographically. Some of his photographs appear in Meurer’s publications at the turn of the century. In 1898 he married Maria Plank. The marriage ended with a divorce in 1910 after 12 years. He later married the opera singer Helene Eminem. He started teaching at the Institute of Royal Arts and Crafts Museum in Berlin in 1898, and continued working there as a professor from 1921 until 1930. His first exhibition was held in 1926 at the Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin; and published the book Urformen der Kunst in 1928, which was highly appreciated by both critics and public.

His subjects were plants and living things. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the way in which plants grow.

Over the past year, Ryan McGinley and his crew explored huge underground caves, venturing into unknown territory and seeking out spectacular natural spaces, some previously undocumented.

The title, “Moonmilk”, alludes to the crystalline deposits found on the walls of many caves; it was once believed that this substance was formed by light from celestial bodies passing through rock into darkened worlds below.

The series, a departure from Ryan’s iconic images of the past, firmly places Ryan as one of the most innovative and influential artists of a generation.

McGinley rejected working in commercial caves, focusing instead on what are commonly referred to as “Wild Caves.” Some of the terminology applied to explorers and other kinds of pioneers can be applied to McGinley and his work process: trailblazer, pathfinder, seeker, searcher, frontiersman, surveyor. For the cave photographs, McGinley plunged himself, his models, and his crew into an awesome and impenetrable blackness and brought back evidence from the hidden realm; pictures from inside the earth.

Warsaw born, NY based photographer Justine Kurland, Nudes from her series 'Of Woman Born' are fascinating in their “hyperreal artificiality” (BNET). The depiction of breast feeding mothers and their infants gathered in cult-like or hippie commune environments where they all stand naked is both eerie and beautiful. Its so natural its seems unreal! And the best part of all her work is the high-keyed, large-format C-prints that her images are presented on. To photograph this series, Kurland drove across the country while living in a van with her one-year old son. She began in New York City and made her way across the southern U.S. toward the Pacific Northwest. She stopped at some 45 locations, including national parks, beaches and campgrounds, to take photographs of other mothers and children that she met along the way. The exhibition’s title is taken from an essay by Adrienne Rich about the realities of motherhood. Kurland uses the natural landscape as a stage for these photographs, constructing an optimistic fantasy about living in harmony with nature and finding faith in humankind even as the world becomes increasingly unsettling. The resulting pictures of nudes posed on beaches, foggy coastlines and under waterfalls give this timeless subject matter an otherworldly quality. Works reference Pictorialist photography, early 19th century landscape photographs intended to lure settlers to the American West, and even Arthur Rackham's turn-of-the-century fairy tale illustrations.

The British photographer David Parker investigates landscapes in a contemporarty way through the medium of large-scale, black and white photography. The serie I'm showing here is the Siren serie: long exposure shots of random islands and rocks in the middle of nowhere. To me, Parker's landscapes are dreamy, and indeed siren. They give me a mistic, empty feeling. A world that isn't discovered yet.

I just stumbled over the beautiful work of Belgian photographer Jean Francois Carly. Going through his portfolio, I was really attracted and inspired by his personal work, especially his ‘Snakes’ series. To see more of his work: http://www.jfcarly.com/

These are some pictures of the serie 'Fallen' of the photographer Toby Burrows. I found it when I was going true some blogs. I really the strange sort of peace in the pictures.