Capturing Nature

$100.00

150 Years of Nature Printing

By Matthew Zucker and Pia Östlund

Featuring hundreds of astonishing rare images, Capturing Nature is a visually stunning journey through the history of nature printing. Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of a natural object such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakes, and more to produce an image. Author Matthew Zucker has spent decades curating the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled. This gorgeous, groundbreaking volume explores Zucker's collection and allows readers to see these nature prints presented side by side for the first time.

Retail Price: $100
Details: Hardcover, 352 pages, 13” x 9”
Publisher: PA Press

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150 Years of Nature Printing

By Matthew Zucker and Pia Östlund

Featuring hundreds of astonishing rare images, Capturing Nature is a visually stunning journey through the history of nature printing. Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of a natural object such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakes, and more to produce an image. Author Matthew Zucker has spent decades curating the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled. This gorgeous, groundbreaking volume explores Zucker's collection and allows readers to see these nature prints presented side by side for the first time.

Retail Price: $100
Details: Hardcover, 352 pages, 13” x 9”
Publisher: PA Press

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  • Matthew Zucker is a publisher of contemporary artists' books and a rare book dealer with a passion for collecting the most unusual books. He lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

    Pia Östlund is a designer and printmaker. She has revived Alois Auer's nature-printing method from the 1850s. She lives and works in Hackney, London.