I've been looking ever since you posted this, to see whether it isn't one of the species that Karl Blossfeldt photographed more than 80 years ago. It is indeed one of those things that must be smack-dab in the center. But I don't have a major monograph on Blossfeldt, though I do have a Centaurea grecisima (as usual, the dry specimen). I wonder what he'd have done with color; color "vor 1926" cannot have been as good as gelatin silver monochrome, though late autochrome was quite good indeed.
I've been looking ever since you posted this, to see whether it isn't one of the species that Karl Blossfeldt photographed more than 80 years ago. It is indeed one of those things that must be smack-dab in the center. But I don't have a major monograph on Blossfeldt, though I do have a Centaurea grecisima (as usual, the dry specimen). I wonder what he'd have done with color; color "vor 1926" cannot have been as good as gelatin silver monochrome, though late autochrome was quite good indeed.
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