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| “Chewing Stomach of Kitchen-schabe, Cockroach” (1928) |
If it hadn’t been for Carl Strüwe we may have never come to appreciate the unlikely beauty of a cockroach’s stomach. This German graphic designer/photographer is widely considered the first to experiment with the potential of microphotographs as art.
Starting in 1926 with an image of a whale jawbone, Strüwe took 280 photographs through microscopes in an ongoing project he called Formen des Mikrokosmos (Forms of the Microcosmos).
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| “Butterfly (Red Admiral), Scales on Wing (Ala papilionis)” (1928) |
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| Finale (1959) |
A selection of these images is now on view in an exhibition at
Steven Kasher Gallery.
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