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German sculptor and professor Blossfeldt (1865-1932) is best known for his close-up photography of plants and for his association with the New Objectivity movement in German photography. This book, edited by the curators of the Karl Blossfeldt Archive in Zurich, Germany, mostly comprises his 61 previously unpublished collages of contact prints, with little text. These large, high-quality color reproductions effectively reveal the aesthetic value of the prints as the artist arranged them, side by side on large cardboard sheets. In an introductory essay, Swiss art historian Ulrike Meyer Stump discusses the purpose of Blossfeldt’s contact prints, which he suggests was to aid the photographer in studying the forms of plants.